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Prigioniero della seconda strada

Titolo originale: The Prisoner of Second Avenue
  • 1975
  • PG
  • 1h 38min
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Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft in Prigioniero della seconda strada (1975)
A suddenly-unemployed company executive suffers a nervous breakdown, and his supporting wife tries everything to console him and pick up the slack.
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Un dirigente d'azienda improvvisamente disoccupato ha un esaurimento nervoso e la moglie che lo sostiene fa di tutto per consolarlo e recuperare il gioco.Un dirigente d'azienda improvvisamente disoccupato ha un esaurimento nervoso e la moglie che lo sostiene fa di tutto per consolarlo e recuperare il gioco.Un dirigente d'azienda improvvisamente disoccupato ha un esaurimento nervoso e la moglie che lo sostiene fa di tutto per consolarlo e recuperare il gioco.

  • Regia
    • Melvin Frank
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Neil Simon
  • Star
    • Jack Lemmon
    • Anne Bancroft
    • Gene Saks
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    6,7/10
    4148
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    • Regia
      • Melvin Frank
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Neil Simon
    • Star
      • Jack Lemmon
      • Anne Bancroft
      • Gene Saks
    • 66Recensioni degli utenti
    • 26Recensioni della critica
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    • Nominato ai 1 BAFTA Award
      • 1 vittoria e 2 candidature totali

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    Jack Lemmon
    Jack Lemmon
    • Mel Edison
    Anne Bancroft
    Anne Bancroft
    • Edna Edison
    Gene Saks
    Gene Saks
    • Harry Edison
    Elizabeth Wilson
    Elizabeth Wilson
    • Pauline
    Florence Stanley
    Florence Stanley
    • Pearl
    Maxine Stuart
    Maxine Stuart
    • Belle
    Ed Peck
    Ed Peck
    • Man Upstairs
    Gene Blakely
    Gene Blakely
    • Charlie
    Ivor Francis
    Ivor Francis
    • Psychiatrist
    Stack Pierce
    Stack Pierce
    • Detective
    Patricia Marshall
    • Woman Upstairs
    Dee Carroll
    Dee Carroll
    • Helen
    Ketty Lester
    • Unemployment Clerk
    M. Emmet Walsh
    M. Emmet Walsh
    • Joe - Doorman
    F. Murray Abraham
    F. Murray Abraham
    • Taxi Driver
    James McCallion
    James McCallion
    • Mr. Cooperman
    Fat Thomas
    Fat Thomas
    • Bus Driver
    Arlen Stuart
    • Elevator Passenger
    • Regia
      • Melvin Frank
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Neil Simon
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    6AlsExGal

    New Yorker Jack Lemmon fights with his wife, while Rocky Balboa runs for his life

    Mel Edison (Jack Lemmon) and his wife Edna Edison (Ann Bancroft) live lives of quiet desperation in an expensive yet shabbily constructed New York apartment with loud and obnoxious neighbors that they do not know nor do they want to know. Then Mel loses his job at age 48 after 22 years with the same firm. He says he was fired, but the modern term is laid off because it was not that he did something wrong, his employer, for whatever reason, just didn't need him anymore. So Mel's quiet desperation becomes louder as weeks turn to months and he can't find employment. Meanwhile, his wife has gone back to work and he feels less and less part of her life as she now comes home with the workplace stories instead of him. Will Mel ever find employment again? Will he ultimately crack up? Watch and find out.

    This film just seems to try too hard with the voice over joke news flashes about what was modern urban life in the 1970s and the quirky extended family members. But the parade had passed it by with it seeming to retread ground first broken by All In the Family five years before. What saves it are the performances of the cast, and not just the main cast. Quite a few future famous actors have bit parts in this and it's a delight when they pop up. M.. Emmett Walsh is the apartment doorman. 1984 Best Actor Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham is a cab driver. And probably the funniest cameo appearance is unknown Sylvester Stallone as a young man who is chased through the streets of New York by an angry Mel, who thinks Stallone has stolen his wallet and he is determined to get it back.

    When Mel is going to work and noticing that more and more of his coworkers are disappearing to the point where he is the last guy in the office, you might wonder why he didn't see the writing on the wall and go look for another job. After all it's easier to find another job when you still have one. The reason for this inaction is that this was made at a time when the concept of being "laid off" was a new one. From the end of WWII up until about 1970 you either got fired for being incompetent at your job or being dishonest or you had employment until you retired. That's an odd concept today when workers are perpetual - and pensionless - moving targets.
    8jimmylee-1

    Pertinent Prisoner

    I've always thought of Neil Simon as being the one playwright consistently able to capture the genuine flavor of New York as a backdrop to the realistic personalities of his characters. Not being a New Yorker - Silicon Valley is about as far away as you can get - I'm afraid I have not been drawn to movies of his plays as strongly as to other comedies.

    But Prisoner of Second Avenue is an exception. Maybe it's because I am indeed in Silicon Valley, where layoffs are something we all get to experience. But this movie captured so aptly the craziness of being laid off, staying home all day - seeing only the one you love (but starting to hate him/her too as an extension of your own self-hatred). Making petty grievances huge, and trying to pretend the truly huge issues no longer exist. And worrying about the bills, and the clothes, and how silly the family behaves when money gets involved. And how the bad luck seems to snowball. And how "therapy" sessions seem so futile.

    The acting is superb - but I don't know of a movie where Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft have ever given us any less. Bancroft, in particular, when she makes the transition to anger, is perfect. Thankfully we're not handed any sop at the end either.

    The subject is so realistic that I don't find it funny at all - but that's a failing of the times we live in, not the movie. A great flick.
    8sijoe22

    Very funny, believe it or not.................

    For some reason, I only think us New Yorkers would appreciate this movie, but maybe not.

    Anyone aware of what Manhattan was like in the 1970s will know this movie really nailed it; it terms of location shots, attitudes, Jewish stereotypes, and so on. This was a pre-Koch time in New York (May he rest in peace- he just passed a couple days ago. Great mayor, great person) and city was at the beginning stages of becoming an open sewer.

    Street scenes will surprise all modern-day Manhattanites; I watched this movie several times, and there's not a single store or shop around then that survives today. (Near 87th & 2nd Ave.) So sad.

    Jack Lemmon's character was funny, from start to finish, without TRYING to be funny. Always a treat- watch for Sly Stallone as a "mugger."
    Colby

    A Hearty Approval of a Wonderful Film

    Being a Jack Lemmon fan, I can't help but be biased when it comes to watching his films. But I have to say, even by Lemmon's standards, "Prisoner" is one of his finest performances. He displays a broad range of emotion as Mel Edison, a corporate exec who falls victim to the unemployment crisis of the seventies. Anne Bancroft is nicely cast as his wife, Edna--it's almost hard to believe watching this film that this is the same woman who played in "G.I. Jane" as a crooked senator. And, although another viewer here frowned upon the casting of Gene Saks' as Mel's brother Harry, I always enjoy seeing the director in front of the camera (Saks directed another of my faves, "The Odd Couple"). The direction is pretty tight, and the interludes between acts include humorous voice-overs from a fictional radio announcer (you'll have to listen closely to catch some of the jokes). Look for Sylvester Stallone in a cameo appearance. I heartily recommend this film to all Jack Lemmon fans, as well as to those who enjoy a good comedy that's not all slapstick and guffaws.
    8blanche-2

    "Where you gonna get the watah???"

    That moment of Anne Bancroft's is my favorite part of the entire film, often imitated where I used to work.

    No one loves urban blight like Neil Simon, and no one depicts it as well. "The Prisoner of Second Avenue" goes much further than "The Out of Towners" because now, the leads (Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft) are actually living in a New York apartment, sleeping in 12 degree air conditioning in their bedroom during a heat wave and sweating everywhere else. Simon leaves nothing out: not having the right change for the bus, the elevator being out, no water, noisy neighbors, mean neighbors, a cheaply put together building, robberies in broad daylight, etc. Lemmon plays a 22-year veteran of a business who is fired, suffers a nervous breakdown, and goes into psychiatric care. His problems go beyond the loss of his job - he has to cope with his country dwelling brother Harry (Gene Saks) and his two sisters (Elizabeth Wilson and Florence Stanley) who want to help but only succeed in being aggravating. Also, his wife has gone back to work as a production assistant and is never home.

    This is really a comedy-drama that shows the enormous range of both actors. The beautiful Bancroft is great as an empty nester who tries to be supportive of her husband, who is losing it, as she goes toward the same territory; Lemmon is alternatively a riot, as annoying as Felix Unger, and as sad as his character in "Save the Tiger" while he attempts to work through his issues and find out who he is.

    With a high rise at Second Avenue and E. 88th St. as a backdrop, "The Prisoner of Second Avenue" is timely today because it takes place during a recession. Suddenly, a lifestyle that wasn't so outrageous to begin with is hard to keep up, and nerves fray.

    City dwellers won't find it difficult to relate to this film, and today, with jobs cuts and loss of income, nobody will. Lots of fun.

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      According to the Jack Lemmon's biography "Lemmon" by Don Widener, actress Anne Bancroft recounted this episode from the film's shooting: "[Jack was] nice to a point where he's crazy...We had a scene in 'Prisoner [of Second Avenue'] where he had to carry a shovel in - a very close two-shot favoring me. I played the scene with tears in my eyes because Jack had accidentally hit me in the shin with that shovel. The director saw something was wrong so he stopped everything. I had a big bump on my leg, but it was Friday and over the weekend I fixed it up. When we came back on Monday the first scene was a retake of the shovel thing. Well, Jack brought the shovel in and I anticipated getting hit again. He's so full of energy, you're sure he's not noticing; but he never touched me. The take was fine, but Jack limped away. To avoid hurting me, he had cut himself. He was bleeding and we had to bandage his leg; his wound was much worse than mine. He is so kind he hurt himself rather than injure someone else. That's a little crazy! It's the nicest crazy I know, and I know a lot of crazy people."
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      When Edna comes home from work with a souffle for dinner, she puts it in the oven but never turns the oven on. A few minutes later when she takes it out of the presumably hot oven, she does not use an oven mitt or pot holder to protect her hand.
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      Pearl: Maybe it's not even a nervous breakdown. Doctors can be wrong, too. They took out all my top teeth... then found out it was kidney stones.

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      Featured in Urban Living: Funny and Formidable (1975)

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    • Data di uscita
      • 5 maggio 1975 (Svezia)
    • Paese di origine
      • Stati Uniti
    • Lingua
      • Inglese
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    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • 245 East 87th Street, Manhattan, New York, New York, Stati Uniti(apartment)
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      • Major Studio Partners
      • Warner Bros.
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