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The Apartment
The story begins with a single person who lives in a single apartment and is employed in a huge company that includes a large number of employees and aspires to upgrade quickly by renting his apartment to the senior employees to get their mistresses away from the eyes of the people but unless this person thinks that the future is hidden for him Surprise is not expected to carry him a lot of complications.
29 November 1926, Trenton, New Jersey, USA
29 August 1914, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
24 August 1916, Petoskey, Michigan, USA
26 September 1927, Chicago, Illinois, USA
30 November 1933, New York City, New York, USA
16 April 1927, Kingston, Pennsylvania, USA
24 March 1941, Greenhills, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
23 February 1926, Brooklyn, New York, USA
20 March 1908, New York, USA
28 June 1908, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
2 December 1914, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
26 November 1913, Pueblo, Colorado, USA
5 March 1926, Forest Hills, New York, USA
26 July 1901, New York City, New York, USA
5 June 1878, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
6 November 1914
14 December 1916, New York, USA
16 December 1920, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
8 February 1925, Newton, Massachusetts, USA
6 March 1916, Los Angeles, California, USA
20 March 1922, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
27 February 1927, McAlester, Oklahoma, USA
19 October 1916, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
25 December 1916, Buffalo, New York, USA
11 August 1908, Sparks, Nevada, USA
February 24, 2013
Despite some entertaining moments and a terrific performance by its lead, it's not a perfect film and does have some problems.
June 15, 2012
Beautifully written and directed by the great Billy Wilder, bittersweet and heartfelt, this is sheer delight.
June 15, 2012
When assessing his own work Billy Wilder described The Apartment as being the film with the fewest mistakes. And he is right: it is as near to perfect as is possible.
August 07, 2014
...despite all its cynicism, The Apartment still ends on a hopeful note...
July 29, 2012
{VIDEO ESSAY} Billy Wilder's classic Manhattan-based romantic comedy comes with a sly critique regarding 50's era corporate culture of rampant misogyny and unbridled ambition.
February 18, 2009
A comedy of men's-room humours and water-cooler politics that now and then among the belly laughs says something serious and sad about the struggle for success, about what it often does to a man, and about the horribly small world of big business.
February 10, 2014
From such potentially edgy material Wilder and co-writer IAL Diamond sculpt an unforgettable romance.
February 23, 2015
Production and direction wise, Wilder sustains his usual excellence. But his story is controversial and I am not one of those who can quite see The Apartment as the great comedy-drama he evidently intended it to be.
June 10, 2008
With tremendous performances by the two leads (Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine), this is yet another "must see" title to be found on Wilder's resume.
August 15, 2007
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.
June 08, 2012
Directed by Wilder with attention to detail and emotional reticence that belie its inherent darkness and melodramatic core, it's lifted considerably by the performances.
July 01, 2013
Wilder, a bilious and mercurial wit, here becomes a wide-screen master of time ...
