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Synopsis. Edna and Mel are a struggling, middle-aged couple living in New York City. Mel has just lost his job, the walls of their apartment are much too thin, and the city is in the middle of a heat wave. Their troubles escalate when Mel suffers a nervous breakdown. Mel becomes slightly paranoid, the apartment is robbed, and their neighbors ...
Purchase The Prisoner of Second Avenue on digital and stream instantly or download offline. Academy Award winners Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft star as a pair of disgruntled New Yorkers in the film version of Neil Simon's Tony Award-winning play in which a recently unemployed executive must subsist on his understanding wife's salary as his tenuous hold on sanity begins to unravel.
Academy Award-winners Jack Lemmon ("Glengarry Glen Ross," "Grumpy Old Men") and Anne Bancroft ("The Graduate," "Agnes of God") are a sweetly melancholic 48-year-old man and his wife who must face the trivial and relentless vexations of New York life when the husband loses not just his job, but also his confidence. From the hilarious hit play by Neil Simon ("The Goodbye Girl"), and featuring Academy Award-winner F. Murray Abraham ("Amadeus") and superstar Sylvester Stallone.
Publicity Director: Harvey B. Sabinson and Lee Solters; Press Representative: Cheryl Sue Dolby; Advertising: Ingram Ash and Matthew Serino; Casting: Linda Otto. The Prisoner of Second Avenue (Original, Play, Comedy, Drama, Broadway) opened in New York City Nov 11, 1971 and played through Sep 29, 1973.
Summaries. A suddenly-unemployed company executive suffers a nervous breakdown, and his supporting wife tries everything to console him and pick up the slack. The story of Mel and Edna ( Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft ), a middle-class, middle-aged, middle-happy couple living in a Manhattan high rise apartment building.
