The Prisoner of Second Avenue
...and you think you've got problems.
A darkly comedic portrait of middle-class crisis and urban claustrophobia, where a man's unraveling under unemployment and heat becomes both funny and painfully human.
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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