The Apartment  (1960)  الشقة

5.7
  • Movie
  • US
  • 125 minutes
  • Released
    • MPAA
    • Unrated

In hopes of getting promoted, insurance worker C.C. Baxter lends his apartment to company bosses to use for extramarital affairs, but when he finds out that his manager is taking advantage of the girl...Read more he fancies, he's faced with a moral dilemma.

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In hopes of getting promoted, insurance worker C.C. Baxter lends his apartment to company bosses to use for extramarital affairs, but when he finds out that his manager is taking...Read more advantage of the girl he fancies, he's faced with a moral dilemma.

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    • MPAA
    • Unrated


  • Country:
  • US

  • Is this a coloured title?:
  • Yes

  • Filming Locations
  • United States

  • Movie Budget:
  • 3,000,000 USD


  • In a scene where Lemmon was supposed to mime being punched, he failed to move correctly and was...Read more accidentally knocked down. Wilder chose to use the shot of the genuine punch in the film.
  • The film was nominated for ten Academy Awards, and won five, including Best Picture.

  • Although Billy Wilder generally required his actors to adhere exactly to the script, he allowed Jack...Read more Lemmon to improvise in two scenes: in one scene he squirted a bottle of nose drops across the room, and in another he sang while making a meal of spaghetti (which he strains through the grid of a tennis racket).
  • The film was Billy Wilder's next movie after Some Like It Hot and, like its predecessor, a...Read more commercial and critical smash, grossing $25 million at the box office.
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