The Apartment

The Apartment is a 1960 romantic comedy-drama directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, and Fred MacMurray. Wilder's follow up to the enormously popular Some Like it Hot was an equal commercial and critical hit, grossing $25 million dollars at the box office, and winning the Best Picture Oscar at the Academy Awards.

Plot

Lemmon plays C.C Baxter, a lonely clerk, who (in hope of corporate advancement) loans out his apartment to executives for their extra-marital affairs, which includes his colleagues and his boss Mr. Sheldrake (MacMurray). The business transaction becomes complicated when he falls for Miss Kubelik (MacLaine), an elevator operator - who turns out to be his boss's mistress. The consequences can be tragic or hilarious; the film often treads the thin line between the two.

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