The Apartment [Thinpak]

The Apartment [Thinpak]
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DVD Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 5 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: February 5, 2008
  • Originally Released: 1960
  • Label: Mgm (Video & Dvd)

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 38,041
It somehow manages to be both sardonic and warmhearted while observantly focusing on the romance... Full Review
Maclean's Magazine
Nov 25, 2019
Rating: 3/5 -- Wilder has made some truly great movies, but this one is not the masterpiece we thought it was.
Little White Lies
Jun 14, 2012
Rating: 3.5/4 -- Production and direction wise, Wilder sustains his usual excellence. But his story is controversial and I am not one of those who can quite see The Apartment as the great comedy-drama he evidently intended it to be. Full Review
New York Daily News
Feb 23, 2015
If it weren't for Lemmon's so affable execution of Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond's script, The Apartment could have been oppressively dark and cynical. Full Review
Under the Radar
Mar 6, 2018
Rating: 4.5/5 -- A black-hearted satire this smart, cutting, and hilarious is good even if it can't quite find a way out of its nihilism. Full Review
Alternate Ending
Oct 7, 2019
All this is quite a load for a comedy, but where else has social comment ever been so effective? Wilder hones his points to a piercing edge... Full Review
Hollywood Reporter
Jun 18, 2018
Wilder, a bilious and mercurial wit, here becomes a wide-screen master of time ...
New Yorker
Jul 1, 2013

Description by OLDIES.com:

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.

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  • Sales Rank: 118,716
  • UPC: 883904100805
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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