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The Apartment

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The Apartment
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NR,2hrs 5min
Genres:
Comedy,Drama
Released:
January 1, 1960
Director:
Billy Wilder
Distributor:
United Artists
Starring:
Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray  ...more
Synopsis: 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 ... Full Synopsis
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Mark Deming, AMG Review
Billy Wilder always liked to thread a strong streak of cynicism through his comedies, and he rarely made a film with a darker undertow than The Apartment. The effervescent comic charm of Jack Lemmon and quirky beauty of Shirley MacLaine give the film a palatable sweetness (while she would be given more glamorous treatment in later films, MacLaine was never more adorable than she was here), but they ... Full Review
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Jack Lemmon
C.C. Baxter
Shirley MacLaine
Fran Kubelik
Fred MacMurray
J.D. Sheldrake
Ray Walston
Mr. Joe Dobisch
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