The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 98m
Director: Melvin Frank
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Anne Bancroft, Gene Saks
Synopsis:
A wife struggles to support her newly unemployed executive husband, who is in the throes of a nervous breakdown.
Review:
The drama side of this untypical Simon venture into serious social comment does at times get a little harrowing, not to say infuriating, but the characters never entirely lose our sympathy. You can sense the claustrophobia - despite the Panavision - and there are some very funny and observant moments. Watch out for F. Murray Abraham as a cab driver, M. Emmet Walsh as a doorman and Sly Stallone as an unfortunate would-be hoodlum. Good music from Hamlisch.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 98m
Director: Melvin Frank
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Anne Bancroft, Gene Saks
Synopsis:
A wife struggles to support her newly unemployed executive husband, who is in the throes of a nervous breakdown.
Review:
The drama side of this untypical Simon venture into serious social comment does at times get a little harrowing, not to say infuriating, but the characters never entirely lose our sympathy. You can sense the claustrophobia - despite the Panavision - and there are some very funny and observant moments. Watch out for F. Murray Abraham as a cab driver, M. Emmet Walsh as a doorman and Sly Stallone as an unfortunate would-be hoodlum. Good music from Hamlisch.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 98m
Director: Melvin Frank
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Anne Bancroft, Gene Saks
Synopsis:
A wife struggles to support her newly unemployed executive husband, who is in the throes of a nervous breakdown.
Review:
The drama side of this untypical Simon venture into serious social comment does at times get a little harrowing, not to say infuriating, but the characters never entirely lose our sympathy. You can sense the claustrophobia - despite the Panavision - and there are some very funny and observant moments. Watch out for F. Murray Abraham as a cab driver, M. Emmet Walsh as a doorman and Sly Stallone as an unfortunate would-be hoodlum. Good music from Hamlisch.