Neil Simon certainly became more serious. (His first wife of twenty years had died in 1973.) And he became more critical of America generally and New York specifically (note sporadic fake news stories). This is about a middle aged man having a mental breakdown following redundancy and how his wife tries to support him. So it's quite serious, and not actually that funny.
Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft are terrific of course. With Gene Saks as his brother (funny that Saks was also a theatre and film director and made Barefoot in the Park and The Odd Couple). Plus Elizabeth Wilson, Florence Stanley, Ivor Francis, M. Emmett Walsh, Sylvester Stallone and F. Murray Abraham.
Photographed by Philip Lathrop, music by Marvin Hamlisch.
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