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100	1		_9231510 _aWilder, Billy, _d1906-2002
245			_aThe Apartment
260			_bMGM (Video and DVD) _c1960 _aU.S.A
300			_a1 DVD
306			_a125 min.
520			_a 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 building's melancholy elevator operator (Shirley MacLaine) runs up against her long-standing affair with the big boss (a superbly smarmy Fred MacMurray). The situation comes to a head when she tries to commit suicide in Baxter's apartment. Not the happiest or cleanest of scenarios, and one that earned the famously caustic and cynically humored Wilder his share of outraged responses, but looking at it now, it is a funny, startlingly clear-eyed vision of urban emptiness and is unfailingly understanding of the crazy decisions our hearts sometimes make. Lemmon and MacLaine are ideally matched, and while everyone cites Wilder's Some Like It Hot closing line "Nobody's perfect" as his best, MacLaine's no-nonsense final words--"Shut up and deal"--are every bit as memorable. Wilder won three Oscars for The Apartment, for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay (cowritten with longtime collaborator I.A.L. Diamond).
546			_aLanguages : English, Polish
546			_aSubtitles : English, Turkish, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Greek, Portuguese, Hebrew, Slovenian
650			_aComedy _9377418
650			_aDrama
700			_9207185 _aLemmon, Jack.
700			_aShirley MacLaine
700			_aFred MacMurray
700			_aDorothy Abbott
700			_aEdie Adams
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