The Apartment
Movie-wise, there has never been anything like it - laugh-wise, love-wise, or otherwise-wise!
19602h 6mNo ratings yet
- Drama
- Comedy
- Romance
Overview
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.
Keywords
- love affair
- new york city
- quitting a job
- christmas
- age difference
- winter
- black and white
- cheerful
- romantic comedy
- extramarital affair
- suicide attempt
- lovesickness
- clerk
- office
- spaghetti
- new year's eve
- apartment
- flat
- tennis racket
- farce
- romcom
- holiday comedy
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- June 21, 1960
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- United Artists,The Mirisch Company
- Cast
- Jack Lemmon,Shirley MacLaine,Fred MacMurray,Ray Walston,Jack Kruschen,David Lewis,Hope Holiday,Joan Shawlee,Naomi Stevens,Johnny Sevenand 28 more
- Director
- Billy Wilder
- Writer
- Billy Wilder,I. A. L. Diamond
- Producer
- Billy Wilder
- Cinematography
- Joseph LaShelle
- Music
- Adolph Deutsch
- Budget
- $3,000,000
- Revenue
- $25,000,000
- IMDb
- tt0053604