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The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
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5 May 1975 (Sweden)
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...and you think you've got problems.
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A suddenly unemployed ex-executive suffers a nervous breakdown. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for BAFTA Film Award.
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Terrific comedy drama
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | 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 |
| Dee Carroll | ... | Helen |
| Ketty Lester | ... | Unemployment Clerk |
 | M. Emmet Walsh | ... | Doorman |
 | F. Murray Abraham | ... | Taxi Driver |
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98 min
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Vincent Gardenia won the 1972 Tony Award (New York City) for Supporting or Features Actor in a Drama for "The Prisoner of Second Avenue" for the role of Harry Edison.
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Featured in Urban Living: Funny and Formidable (1975)
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I must confess I have a bias for films of the seventies. Most of my all time favourite films were made in that decade and this is one of them.
Jack Lemmon is a New York middle executive who is retrenched. We watch as he slides into depression. Their is some fine humour in this film, which, incidentally was not well received critically, but it is really the underlying drama that makes this such a great film. It is an intensely personal film for me and, apart from some overacting, there is little I can criticise. It is an incisive and briskly paced comedy drama which I never tire of viewing.
By the way, watch out for cameos by pre-fame Sylvester Stallone and F. Murray Abraham.