Das Nervenbündel (1975)

Das Nervenbündel: Directed by Melvin Frank. With Jack Lemmon, Anne Bancroft, Gene Saks, Elizabeth Wilson. A suddenly-unemployed company executive suffers a nervous breakdown, and his supporting wife tries everything to console him and pick up the slack.

“For some reason, I only think us New Yorkers would appreciate this movie, but maybe not.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAnyone 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.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eStreet scenes will surprise all modern-day Manhattanites; I watched this movie several times, and thereu0026#39;s not a single store or shop around then that survives today. (Near 87th u0026amp; 2nd Ave.) So sad. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eJack Lemmonu0026#39;s character was funny, from start to finish, without TRYING to be funny. Always a treat- watch for Sly Stallone as a u0026quot;mugger.u0026quot;”