The Prisoner of Second Avenue

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The Prisoner of Second Avenue


Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy, Drama
Release Year: 1975
Country: USA
Runtime: 98
Rating: 6.8 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Melvin Frank
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

  • ...and you think youve got problems.


    • Writing by: Neil Simon - (play)
    Neil Simon - (screenplay)

    Produced by: Melvin Frank - producer

    Cast: Jack Lemmon - Mel Edison
    Anne Bancroft - Edna Edison
    Gene Saks - Harry Edison
    Elizabeth Wilson - Pauline
    Florence Stanley - Pearl
    Maxine Stuart - Belle
    Ed Peck - Man Upstairs
    Gene Blakely - Charlie
    Ivor Francis - Psychiatrist
    Stack Pierce - Detective
    Patricia Marshall - Woman Upstairs

    Music: Marvin Hamlisch
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    Plot Outline: A suddenly unemployed ex-executive suffers a nervous breakdown.
    Plot: 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. Mel loses his job, the apartment is robbed, Edna gets a job, Mel loses his mind, Edna loses her job . . . to say nothing of the more minor tribulations of nosy neighbors, helpful relatives and exact bus fares. The couple suffers indignity after indignity (some self-inflicted) and when they seem on the verge of surrender, they thumb their noses defiantly and dig the trenches for battle.

    Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
    Credits scroll down instead of up

    Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
    Factual errors: St. Jude is the patron saint of hopeless causes, not lost items. St. Anthony bears that title.

    Trivia: There are 1 entries in the trivia list - like these:

    • The Prisoner of Second Avenue opened at the Eugene ONeill Theater on November 11, 1971 and ran for 798 performances. Florence Stanley reprises her role in the movie.



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