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The Apartment (DVD, 2001) (German\French\Spanish\Italian)

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Product Information

In an effort to further his career, an aspiring office clerk lets his boss use his apartment as a safe place in which to carry on his romantic encounters. Complications arise when the clerk falls in love with his boss's girlfriend.

Product Identifiers

EAN5050070005417

eBay Product ID (ePID)3951777

Product Key Features

ActorJoan Shawlee, Ray Walston, Jack Lemmon, Fred Macmurray, Jack Kruschen, David Lewis, Shirley Maclaine, Naomi Stevens

Film/TV TitleThe Apartment

DirectorBilly Wilder

LanguageEnglish

Run Time120 Mins

Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen\2.35 Wide Screen

FormatDVD

Release Year2001

FeaturesOriginal Theatrical Trailer\Interactive Menu Screens\Chapter Selections, Black & White, Widescreen, Closed Caption

GenreDrama, General

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

CertificatePG

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

Hearing ImpairedEnglish

ReviewsNew York Times - A gleeful, tender and even sentimental film, Time Out - The quintessential New York movie û with exquisite design by Alexandre Trauner and shimmering black-and-white photography û it presented something of a breakthrough in its portrayal of the war of the sexes, with a sour and cynical view of the self-deception, loneliness and cruelty involved in æromanticÆ liaisons., Variety - Most of the time, it's up to director Wilder to sustain a two-hour-plus film on treatment alone, a feat he manages to accomplish more often than not, and sometimes the results are amazing, Empire - This comedy tells truths about American business and sexual morΘs as uncomfortable now as they were in 1960, The Guardian - Billy Wilder's The Apartment (1960) is a big-city satire with a romantic heart of gold: it's a welcome re-release, and for those who love the style of Mad Men, or Richard Yates's 1961 novel Revolutionary Road (and Sam Mendes's fine screen adaptation) it's a must.

Additional InformationWinner of numerous Academy and BAFTA Awards, Billy Wilder's THE APARTMENT blends his customary harsh cynicism with a humane streak that appears only fleetingly in his films. The movie 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 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.

AwardsBest Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen 1961 - I.A.L. Diamond, Best Picture 1961 -

ScreenwriterI.A.L. Diamond, Billy Wilder

Dubbing LanguagesGerman\French\Spanish\Italian

Sound sourceMono

Format DescriptionDVD 9

Movie/TV TitleThe Apartment