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The Apartment was distributed by United Artists to widespread critical acclaim and was a commercial success, despite controversy owing to its subject matter. It became the 8th highest-grossing film of 1960. At the 33rd Academy Awards, the film was nominated for ten awards, and won five, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay.
- $3 million
- Adolph Deutsch
- Billy Wilder
The Apartment: Directed by Billy Wilder. With Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston. A Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Billy Wilder
- 1960-06-29
Jul 22, 2001 · A classic film by Billy Wilder about a lonely man (Jack Lemmon) who lets his bosses use his apartment for their affairs, and falls in love with one of them (Shirley MacLaine). Ebert praises the film's balance of farce and sadness, its widescreen cinematography, and its witty dialogue.
Insurance worker C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) lends his Upper West Side apartment to company bosses to use for extramarital affairs. When his manager Mr. Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray) begins using ...
- (2.4K)
- Jack Lemmon
- Billy Wilder
- Comedy, Drama
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Synopsis. C. C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) is a lonely office drone for an insurance company in New York City. Four different company managers take turns commandeering Baxter's apartment, which is located on West 67th Street on the Upper West Side, for their various extramarital liaisons. Unhappy with the situation, but unwilling to challenge them ...
Feb 2, 2022 · "The Apartment" won Wilder Best Director (for the second time) and Best Screenplay (for the third time) at the Oscars, and it ends with four simple words that cause the biggest smile to be slapped ...
