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The Apartment Details

1960 Certificate PG
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Winner of numerous Academy and BAFTA Awards, Billy Wilder's THE APARTMENT blends his customary harsh cynicism with a humane streak that appears only fleetingly in his films. The movie stars Jack Lemmon as C.C. Baxter, an office clerk who curries favor with the executives in his office by giving them the key to his small .. Read more

Starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston
Director Billy Wilder
Genres Comedy, Drama

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Winner of numerous Academy and BAFTA Awards, Billy Wilder's THE APARTMENT blends his customary harsh cynicism with a humane streak that appears only fleetingly in his films. The movie stars Jack Lemmon as C.C. Baxter, an office clerk who curries favor with the executives in his office by giving them the key to his small apartment for the odd afternoon dalliance. Among them is his callous boss, J.D. Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray), who Baxter eventually learns is using his place to sleep with Miss Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine), the sweet elevator operator the clerk has loved from afar. When Sheldrake coldly dumps the vulnerable young woman, she tries to commit suicide, but is saved by the intervention of Baxter. As the clerk lovingly nurses the young woman back to health he begins to realize, with the help of epigrammatic neighbor Dr. Dreyfuss (Jack Kruschen), exactly how much of a fool he has been. Wilder brilliant depiction of the average American office as a place of brutality, coldness, and alienation conjure up Kafka and Marx. The director seduces the audience into what appears to be an unusually frank sex comedy, but turns the tables in displaying the consequences of the executive's cold indifference. Lemmon and MacLaine both give career performances and MacMurray is memorable as the blandly smiling snake.

Starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, David Lewis, Joan Shawlee, Naomi Stevens
Director Billy Wilder
Studio MGM ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 2 hrs
Certificate Certificate PG
Collections American Film Institute's top 100, Best Picture Oscar Winners
Genres Comedy, Drama
Language DVD: English
Dubbed German, French, Spanish, Italian
Hearing-impaired English
Released Production year: 1960

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DVD: 26 Nov 2001

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    • Most of the time, it's up to director Wilder to sustain a two-hour-plus film on treatment alone, a feat he manages to accomplish more often than not, and sometimes the results are amazing

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      Bud Baxter is an ambitious drone at a major insurance company, and he has a problem. The senior executives have got in the habit of borrowing his apartment for ... read more »

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      This film has feels like a heartwarming classic all the way through, has a musical score to support that with a fantastic ending.

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    Director Jason Reitman has recruited stars including Emma Stone, Paul Rudd and James Woods for a reading of The Apartment as he takes his movie theatre project to New York City. The moviemaker has been bringing a series of well-loved movies to the stage in Los Angeles in recent months for star-studded live readings of films including The Big Lebowski, The Breakfast Club and The Princess Bride. He is now taking the shows to the Big Apple and will kick off the Live Read series in Manhattan on... Read more

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