Save The Tiger (1973)

Harry Stoner (Jack Lemmon, in an Oscar-winning role) has his back to the wall – the president of Capri Casuals, a struggling fashion house, he's facing an audit, burned out on a life fraught with extravagant trappings (a daughter in a Swiss boarding school, maids, lavish house) and yearning for simpler times, when he was a youth enamored of baseball. In director John G. Avildsen's quietly desperate Save The Tiger, 36 hours in Harry's life unfold like a surreal, blue-collar nightmare –

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