The Prisoner of Second Avenue
...and you think you've got problems.
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3/14/1975Runtime
98 minsGenres
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Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave.
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A darkly comic portrait of a man unraveling as unemployment and urban suffocation push him toward breakdown. The laughs come from watching someone's carefully maintained life collapse in real time.
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