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Genres:
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Romance /
Comedy /
Drama /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Billy Wilder
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Actors:
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Shirley MacLaine,
Jack Kruschen,
Edie Adams,
Hope Holiday,
David White,
Naomi Stevens,
David Lewis,
Johnny Seven,
Willard Waterman,
Jack Lemmon,
Fred MacMurray,
Ray Walston,
Joan Shawlee,
Joyce Jameson
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Duration:
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125 min.
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Rating:
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(8.4/10)124.5
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Plot Summary:
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Winner of numerous Academy and BAFTA Awards, Billy Wilder's THE APARTMENT blends his commonplace cross cynicism with a humane that appears only fleetingly in his films. The movie stars Jack Lemmon as C.C. Baxter, an role clerk who curries favor with the executives in his task by giving them the key to his minute apartment looking for the remaining afternoon dalliance. Entirety them is his uncaring boss, J.D. Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray), who Baxter eventually learns is using his wrong to sleep with Miss Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine), the sweet elevator big wheel the clerk has loved from afar. Wh... en Sheldrake coldly dumps the unprotected brood woman, she tries to commit suicide, but is saved by the intervention of Baxter. As the clerk lovingly nurses the sophomoric woman master b crush to health he begins to see, with the help of epigrammatic neighbor Dr. Dreyfuss (Jack Kruschen), verbatim how much of a easy mark he has been. Wilder brilliant depiction of the average American office as a consider of brutality, coldness, and alienation conjure up Kafka and Marx. The director seduces the audience into what appears to be an unusually direct sex comedy, but turns the tables in displaying the consequences of the executive's off the track indifference. Lemmon and MacLaine both transfer career performances and MacMurray is remarkable as the blandly smiling snake.
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Apartment, The
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 their extra-marital trysts, leaving him out on the streets. His cooperation ensures a series of promotions, but things become more complicated when his boss begins using the apartment for dates with Fran Kubelik, the girl he loves.
The Apartment is a classic comedy with sadness at its heart, and a model of economy and timing. The quickfire dialogue is classic Billy Wilder, such as when Fran describes a severe hangover as having a head ?like a big wad of chewing gum.? The plot is intricate and precise, veering close to farce with a host of coincidences and misunderstandings. Jack Lemmon is funny and moving by turns, and Shirle...
The old ones are best...
This has to be one of the slickest bits of directing ever. Just look at the scene in the bar with Jack Lemmon and Joyce Jameson (as the floozie) WOW! - it's a masterpiece. MacLaine stays intriguing right to the end, and the little people triumph!
Marvellous.
Apartment, The
Diamond-sharp satire with a clever execution from Lemmon
Apartment, The
Diamond-sheer caricature with a brilliant performance from Lemmon as the indemnification clerk who forges ahead in the rat race...
Apartment, The
Agreeably mordant and cynical comedy with a sparkling view of municipality office life and some deftly handled individual sequences.
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