Apartment

Pros: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Story, Comedy
Cons: A bit dated

The Apartment (1960) This is another Billy Wilder film, who if you don't know was one of the most versatile movie directors ever.  Wilder made many films, often probing relatively untapped ground for the usually unimaginative ...

Pros: Jack Lemmon's versatility. Fred MacMurray's oddly-appropriate lack of same.
Cons: Depressing overall theme for a comedy. Produced at the brink of fashion oblivion.

In the 95 years Billy Wilder spent on planet Earth, this legendary jack-of-all-trades left a film legacy which includes such titles as Ball of Fire, The Lost Weekend, Sunset Boulevard, Ace in the Hole, Stalag 17, Sabrina and Some Like it ...

Pros: Great performances from Lemmon and MacLaine. Perfectly written and directed
Cons: None

To many people C.C. Baxter’s apartment is a fun playground where married men can run amok with their clandestine affairs. To C.C. Baxter it’s a lonely place, a reminder of what’s missing in his own life. His focus therefore becomes his ...

Pros: Lemmon, MaClaine, Kruschen, dirtecting, dialog and music. All of it!
Cons: "Dated" for the sixties-or is it?

The Apartment is the movie that heralded the sexual freedom of the sixties and seventies and gave the workplace a bad name, in terms of the “way people act". In fact. In it’s day it was quite risque, and was too sophisticated for me to...

Pros: The storyline, the performances, the direction
Cons: Nothing much

Introduction Billy Wilder is one of those rare directors who directed a good handful of masterpieces. The Apartment is definitely one of them. He combines lighthearted humor with dramatic severity in ways that makes it seem easy. Though ...

Pros: Everything.
Cons: Nothing

There are many ways to define a “ classic” movie and when I rewatched this seminal Wilder work a number of weeks ago on AMC , I realized this movie gloriously exemplifies three of them : ONE– A movie that simply stands the test of time in it’s own ...

Pros: Funny, Decent acting, Generally decent characters
Cons: Minutia

I watch so many movies these days that it is almost surprising how long it sometimes takes for me to form an opinion on a movie. In the case of "The Apartment," I was surprised by how instantly engaging the movie was and how quickly I came to enjoy it. ...

Pros: Humor, nostalgia, a little guy standing up to a big guy
Cons: None! Wish it was a little longer

Here I am, writing about yet another Billy Wilder film, "The Apartment". I've only reviewed a few films on Epinions, and now three of them will be by one of my favorite directors.

Each time "The Apartment" airs, I can't...

Pros: Excellent Story and Moral Lesson, Superb performances by Lemmon, MacLaine, and MacMurray.
Cons: I wish the ending could have been better. Did Lemmon and MacLaine really get together?

Intro I just rented Billy Wilders, "The Apartment" on DVD. It was an excellent movie. It stars Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, and Fred MacMurray. All actors did a wonderful job and the movie was a pure delight. Plot Summary ...

Pros: Wilder, Lemmon, MacLaine, MacMurray
Cons: nothing. seriously.

What a shame. What a downright shame that this review - which I've put off since the release of The Apartment on DVD nearly two weeks ago - must now take on the saddening bent of a eulogy. For as we know all too well by now, thanks to the...

Pros: cast, sets, MacLaine has some good lines
Cons: characters lack credibility, moralistic

Billy Wilder's "The Apartment" was an enormous success. Nominated for ten Academy Awards, it won five, including Best Picture and Best Director. Made as a comedy, the film appears much darker today. However, the stereotype of business...

Pros: Trademark Billy Wilder situations
Cons: A little too tame at times

Billy Wilder was at his peak in the late '50s, releasing the romantic comedy trilogy of Some Like it Hot, Love in the Afternoon and The Apartment, his three best-known, best-loved films. This one, though not as wildly funny as Some Like it Hot, is a...

Pros: Excellent acting, screenplay
Cons: Voiceover at the beginning

The romantic comedy The Apartment stars Jack Lemmon as C.C. Baxter, a clerk at a large, New York City insurance company. He's been tagged as a pushover by some of his superiors, and coerced into letting them use his apartment for their occasional...

Pros: Wonderful script and performances.
Cons: None.

Bud Baxter is an ambitious drone at a major insurance company, and he has a problem. The senior executives have got in the habit of borrowing his apartment for their extra-marital trysts, leaving him out on the streets. His cooperation ensures a series ...

Pros: MacLaine and Lemmon
Cons: Wish there had been a sequel!

We all have such a movie in our lives. Or at the very least we should have.

Whether it is "Casablanca", or "An Affair To Remember" (featured briefly in "Sleepless In Seattle"), there is that one movie that gets under our skin, and...