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| The Apartment [1960] | ![The Apartment [1960]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5191N9X2XDL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Billy Wilder
Actors: Jack Lemmon, Shirley Maclaine, Fred Macmurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen
Studio: MGM Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (18 reviews)
Sales Rank: 4004
Format: Anamorphic, Black White, Dubbed, Pal, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Dubbed), German (Dubbed), Italian (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Media: DVD
Running Time: 120 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5050070005417
ASIN: B00005Q61O
Release Date: November 26, 2001
Theatrical Release Date: September 16, 1960
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Amazon.co.uk Review
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 unsavoury 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 CC 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 humoured 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 iSome Like It Hot/i 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 iThe Apartment/i, for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay (cowritten with long-time collaborator I A L Diamond). I--Robert Abele/I
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great art can be great entertainment in right hands January 7, 2009
realist art can entertainbr /billy wilder looKs from the claustrophobia of office compartments and single bedroom apartments at the social and sexual reality of new york and creates a natural,real yet engaging look at human life with cheating husbands,exploited women and wicked executives .br /br /the catchphrase is anything goes as long as you succeed ,if it takes you up the corporate ladder by indulging in out of office extra-curricular activities .br /br /the metropolitan bar scene and office parties are staged with a genuine touch and the milieu created is real and dark,yet filled with humour and high drama .br /br /wilder has demonstrated a talented maker can make a really engaging movie about real people and this piece shows his immense talent with ordinary everyday themes and average people ,neither lemmon or maclaine are sex symbols but they portray the casual with little gestures and body language with genius that elevates a realist story to immense dramatic heights ,the music is simple and the centre-point is the minutely defined characters and their common lives .br /br /This is called art and realism combined to attain great cinema .
Christmas movie time July 11, 2008
The Apartment is one of the essential Christmas movies along with the other black and white classics - It's a wonderful life, Miracle on 34th Street, Some like it hot and Scrooge. It's a fantastic film for a cold, dark December night and seems to work best at that time of year, just like The odd couple or Rear window seem to work best in summer.
Cynical but romantic comedy, beautifully done June 4, 2008
This movie manages to be funny, romantic and true. It's great entertainment and the acting and writing is superbly done. One of Billy Wilder's best, Jack Lemmon's too. Strongly recommended.
A Classic 1960s Love-Tangle Comedy-Drama March 10, 2008
This is a classic film from the 1960s which deservedly won 5 Oscars (including Best Picture, Director and Screenplay ALL for Billy Wilder).br /br /It is essentially a love comedy, but still manages to include some sinister undertones, to create a very entertaining story about a man attracted to another employee at the insurance company where he works, but where she is already involved with another man....br /br /The lead actors, Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, beautifully portray their characters with verve and great emotion and there are several other contributors who add to the overall impact of the film.br /br /Of course, the most influence factor is that of Wilder, who moves the plot along at a perfect pace and injects many moments of pure dramatic and comedic brilliance, courtesy of a faultless screenplay.br /br /This DVD has an excellent picture quality, with only the occasional blemish appearing, and a clear soundtrack.
 Wilder Comic Genius September 6, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The comic genius of Billy Wilder was never better illustrated than by this bitter sweet romantic comedy. It's focus ranges from the general with its' seering indictment of the corporate world to the particular and a wonderful exploration of the central characters's lives in the persons of Lemmon, MacLaine and MacMurray.br /br /Lemmon's performance as the central "everyman" or John Doe character caught between career enhancement and love, is superb. MacLaine provides a wonderfully tragic heroine and McMurray is immoral corporate America personified. br /br /Laughter freely mingles with tears as Lemmon struggles to assert his identity against a rising tide of corruption and infidelity. It's warm, it's funny, it's wonderfully evocative but most of all it makes you consider the ethics of the corporate world and their impact on society at large.br /br /An all together superior romantic comedybr /br /
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