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The Apartment (1960)
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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...
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| The Apartment Movie Review by Andy (4/4/2007) |
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Baxter(Jack Lemmon) is the every man. Just trying to make something of himself at the insurance company he works, he gives into giving favors to his many bosses. The favors are simply to let them take their girlfriends to his apartment. Nothing much ever seems to come of these favors until one day that favor is asked of...
(complete The Apartment review by Andy)
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