The Prisoner of Second Avenue

IT'S THE MID LIFE CRISIS - IS MEL BIG ENOUGH TO HANDLE IT? Barking dogs. Noisy neighbours. Thin walls. Elevators that don't work and doormen who won't. Apartment burglars who work overtime. Maniacal taxi drivers, and arrogant beaurocrats. Half the town on strike and the other half negotiating. It's New York City in the mid-seventies, a symptom of a world that's breaking down. Crazy at the best of times, and if you're like Mel (Jack Lemon), a 48 year old executive who's just lost the job he's held for the past 22 years, it's enough to drive you completely nuts. Tormented by his successful elder brother Harry (Gene Saks), emotionally devastated by his inability to find work while his wife Edna (Anne Bancroft), effortlessly regains her old job as a television production assistant, Mel is the true-life embodiment of the mid-life crisis. With the help of the loving and long suffering Edna, Mel finds his own way of coming to terms with it. © Warner Bros. Inc.