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Mood:
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- Fall in LoveLove TriangleWorkplace RomanceDishonestyLove and RomanceMind and SoulWorkplaceCouples more...
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- ComedyRomanceDrama
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century60s
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- New YorkUSAUrban
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Audience:
- Date Night
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- Talky
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The Apartment, 1960
English
USA
Profile of The Apartment
The Apartment can be described as cynical, clever, and witty. The plot revolves around a workplace romance, a love triangle, and power relations. The main genres are comedy, romance, and drama. In terms of style, The Apartment is talky. In approach, it is realistic. It is set, at least in part, in an urban environment. The Apartment is located in New York. It takes place in the 1960s. The movie has received attention for being a classic, an Oscar winner, and critically acclaimed. The Apartment is well suited for a date night.
Summary of The Apartment
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 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.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 15 June 1960 |
| Runtime: | 125 min |
| Awards: | Academy Awards |
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as Calvin Clifford 'C.C.' Baxter
as Fran Kubelik
as Jeff D. Sheldrake
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Users Reviews
- 08.October.2009
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- by: DukeofOmnium
- DukeofOmnium rated this movie
0/10
- 22.March.2009
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- by: coolerking
- coolerking rated this movie
8/10Great
