Rating: NR
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Release Date: 06/19/2001
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol
Run Time: 125 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: MGM
Widely regarded as a comedy in 1960,
The Apartment seems more melancholy with each passing year.
Jack Lemmon plays C.C. Baxter, a go-getting office worker who loans his tiny apartment to his philandering superiors for their romantic trysts. He runs into trouble when he finds himself sharing a girlfriend (
Shirley MacLaine) with his callous boss (
Fred MacMurray). Director/co-writer
Billy Wilder claimed that the idea for
The Apartment stemmed from a short scene in the 1945 romantic drama
Brief Encounter in which the illicit lovers (
Trevor Howard and
Celia Johnson) arrange a rendezvous in a third person's apartment. Wilder was intrigued about what sort of person would willingly vacate his residence to allow virtual strangers a playing field for hanky panky. His answer to that question wound up winning 6 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay.
The Apartment was adapted by
Neil Simon and
Burt Bacharach into the 1969 Broadway musical
Promises, Promises.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Wilder's Ultimate Adult Comedy Classic.
Billy Wilder's superb comedy-drama won five Academy Awards including Best Picture, Wilder won two Oscars as Best Director and along with I.A.L. Diamond for Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing. Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, and Fred MacMurray are the main players in this little fiasco about an accountant (Lemmon) hoping to climb up the corporate ladder by lending his apartment to various executives for their extramarital trysts, but it backfires when he falls for his boss' (MacMurray) latest girlfriend (MacLaine). Also starring Ray Walston, Edie Adams, Jack Kruschen, David Lewis, Joan Shawlee, David White, and Hope Holliday.
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