a ISBN B-00-003CX8-V

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng

a Language code of text/sound track or separate title pol

a Classification number DVD 000495

a Personal name Wilder, Billy,

d Dates associated with a name 1906-2002

a Title The Apartment

h Medium DVD

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc MGM (Video and DVD)

c Date of publication, distribution, etc 1960

a Place of publication, distribution, etc U.S.A

a Extent 1 DVD

a Playing time 125 min.

a Summary, etc 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).

a Language note Languages : English, Polish

a Language note Subtitles : English, Turkish, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Greek, Portuguese, Hebrew, Slovenian

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Comedy

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Drama

a Personal name Lemmon, Jack.

a Personal name Shirley MacLaine

a Personal name Fred MacMurray

a Personal name Dorothy Abbott

a Personal name Edie Adams

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