The Apartment [DVD]

Winner of numerous Academy and BAFTA Awards Billy Wilders 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 executives cold indifference. Lemmon and MacLaine both give career performances and MacMurray is memorable as the blandly smiling snake.

The Apartment [DVD]

• Product Type: DVD
• Barcode: 5050070005417
• Release Date: February 11, 2003

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