Neil Simon's funny and sweet 70s urban-living comedy stars Jack Lemmon, Anne Bancroft, and.... New York City! A must see for fans of all of them. Empty-nesters Mel and Edna (Lemmon and Bancroft) learn to live with some major life crises - all in a matter of days: Lemmon loses his job, their apartment in the Upper East Side (The Mayflower Apartments on Second and 88th Street) gets burglarized, Lemmon looks for a job, Bancroft goes back to work full time, Lemmon gets robbed by pickpocket on the street (played by Sylvester Stallone - 1 year before "Rocky"), Bancroft loses her job, and Lemmon seeps into a manic depression, and comically lashes out any chance he can get at anyone and everyone. Throughout the entire film he pretty much plays Felix Unger after the meat loaf burns. Ms Bancroft is both very sweet and very manic in this movie - and Lemmon is a perfect neurotic, as always. There is a hilarious scene with Lemmon going completely nuts in the living room, spewing out the most outrageous conspiracy theory about unemployment you've ever heard. Bancroft also has a scene at the end where she flips out. And their banter is quite "Bickersons"-esque. Also starring Gene Saks (from "A Thousand Clowns" - ironically, his role here in "Prisoner" is much like Martin Balsam's in "Clowns") as Lemmon's brother who tries to help him out of his neurosis. Was originally a Broadway hit with Mike Nichols directing (and winning a Tony for Best Director). More Trivia: On the stage, Peter Falk and Lee Grant played the leads, and Vincent Gardenia won a Tony for Best supporting Actor as the brother. Other than the plentiful New York exterior shots, the rest of the movie - mostly apartment scenes - was filmed at the Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank, CA.