| Mel Edison is a well paid executive of a
high-end Manhattan firm which has suddenly hit the skids and
he gets the ax. His wife Edna takes a job to tide them over,
then she too is sacked. Compounded by the air-pollution
killing his plants, and with the walls of the apartment
paper-thin, allowing him a constant earfull of his neighbors
private lives things can't seem to get any worse...then he's
robbed and his psychiatrist dies with $23,000 of his
money. Mel does the only thing left for him to do-he has a
nervous breakdown and it's the best thing that ever happened
to him...
"A gift for taking a grave subject and, without losing sight of its
basic seriousness, treating it with hearty but sympathetic
humor...A talent for writing a wonderful funny line...full of
humor and intelligence. Fine fun."-New York Post
"Creates an atmosphere of casual cataclysm, an everyday urban
purgatory of copelessness from which laughter seems to be
released like vapor from the city's manholes."-Time |