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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Billy Wilder |
| Stars: |
Jack Lemmon |
| Actors: |
Joan Shawlee |
| Genre: |
Comedies |
| Subgenre: |
Recommended · Romances · Infidelity · Love Triangles · Essential Cinema · Classic |
| MPAA Rating: |
Not Rated |
| Available Formats: |
VHS: Vintage Classics |
| UPC: |
027616631732 |
| Release Date: |
1960 |
| Running Time: |
2hr 5min |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
English |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD: Collector's Edition, 2hr 5min
Release Company: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (February 05, 2008)
UPC: 883904100805 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS, 2hr 5min
Release Company: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (February 20, 1990)
UPC: 027616130730 |
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Credits
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| Screenwriter: |
I. A. L. Diamond |
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Professional Reviews
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(10/21/1994, pp.70-2, Ty Burr): "...Fresh....[MacLaine's performance] breaks through Lemmon's brittle good cheer..." -- Rating: A- |
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Quotes from the Movie
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"Miss Kubelik, one doesn't get to be a second administrative assistant around here unless he's a pretty good judge of character, and as far as I'm concerned you're tops. I mean, decency-wise and otherwise-wise."--C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) to Miss Kubelick (Shirley MacLaine)
"You know, I used to live like Robinson Crusoe--shipwrecked among eight million people. Then one day I saw a footprint in the sand, and there you were."--Baxter to Kubelick |
| More Information |
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Billy Wilder's THE APARTMENT blends his customary harsh cynicism with a humane streak that appears only fleetingly in his films. It 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 his 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 aud... |
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