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The Apartment (Collector's Edition)
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0883904100805
Format: Collector's Edition, Black & White, Dubbed, Subtitled
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed),
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
MPN: M110080
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 05, 2008
Running Time: 125 minutes
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1960
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Editorial Review:
Winner* of five 1960 Academy Awards® including Best Picture The Apartment is legendary writer/director Billy Wilder at his scathing satirical best and one of "the finest comedies Hollywood has turned out" (Newsweek). C.C. "Bud" Baxter (Jack Lemmon) knows the way to success in business... it's through the door of his apartment! By providing a perfect hide away for philandering bosses the ambitious young employee reaps a series of undeserved promotions. But when Bud lends the key to big boss J.D. Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray) he not only advances his career but his own love life as well. For Sheldrake's mistress is the lovely Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine) elevator girl and angel of Bud's dreams. Convinced that he is the only man for Fran Bud must make the most important executive decision of his career: lose the girl... or his job.System Requirements:Running Time: 125 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY/ROMANTIC COMEDY Rating: NR UPC: 883904100805 Manufacturer No: M110080
Romance at its most anti-romantic--that is the Billy Wilder stamp of genius, and this Best Picture Academy Award winner from 1960 is no exception. Set in a decidedly unsavory world of corporate climbing and philandering, the great filmmaker's trenchant, witty satire-melodrama takes the office politics of a corporation and plays them out in the apartment of lonely clerk C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon). By lending out his digs to the higher-ups for nightly extramarital flings with their secretaries, Baxter has managed to ascend the business ladder faster than even he imagined. The story turns even uglier, though, when Baxter's crush on the building's melancholy elevator operator (Shirley MacLaine) runs up against her long-standing affair with the big boss (a superbly smarmy Fred MacMurray). The situation comes to a head when she tries to commit suicide in Baxter's apartment. Not the happiest or cleanest of scenarios, and one that earned the famously caustic and cynically humored Wilder his share of outraged responses, but looking at it now, it is a funny, startlingly clear-eyed vision of urban emptiness and is unfailingly understanding of the crazy decisions our hearts sometimes make. Lemmon and MacLaine are ideally matched, and while everyone cites Wilder's Some Like It Hot closing line "Nobody's perfect" as his best, MacLaine's no-nonsense final words--"Shut up and deal"--are every bit as memorable. Wilder won three Oscars for The Apartment, for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay (cowritten with longtime collaborator I.A.L. Diamond). --Robert Abele
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Great movie to watch anytime!
The movie was great! It's funny to see the same nonsense that happens nowadays being portrayed years ago. The more things change they definitely stay the same!
Rating: - ONE OF THE BEST SCREENPLAYS OF THE 60s
Billy wilder was the first woody allen
and this movie shows it
the best comedy and drama with great performances and direction.
a treasure, no doubt about it
Rating:  - Bworth in Boston
This was one of the dullest movies I've ever watched! Other laudatory reviwes mystify me. Can this really be the same Billy Wilder who made " Some Like It Hot???"
Rating:  - Very Poignant and Touching! Too Bad About the DVD!
Although this is billed as a comedy, it's only so in the sense that just as "Macbeth" was a tragedy and "Twelfth Night" was a comedy, this film is a comedy. What I mean is that over the years, the jokes are still amusing but not really funny anymore and in fact some of them are just downright corny e.g. the "you should see my backhand" line. Still, this film is very poignant and touching and really came to life for me towards the middle and end when it addresses the cruelty inflicted on women by ... Read More
Rating:  - The Barrenness of Eight.
Several men kept an apartment for their daytime and nightly trysts and, sometimes, had to arrange ahead of time for the privacy they were paying for. This was a busy place day and night with appointments similar to Butterfield Eight where Elizabeth Taylor's character parlayed a long mink coat. The townhouse apartment was beautifullly furnished with good taste and expensive condiments. Not that they cooked. All of the essentials needed for good living was arranged for comfort and luxury.
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