"The Apartment," released in 1960 was directed and co-written by Billy Wilder. The movie won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The movie surrounds C.C. "Bud" Baxter, played by Jack Lemmon, who works for a insurance company in New York City...which generally is a great place for a movie to be set. He loans his apartment to various higher-ups in the company so they can have affairs. Obviously this is an awful thing to do on several moral and logical levels. However, for Bud, lots of promotions sound like a good idea...apparently whatever the cost...at least at first. He ends up falling in love with his boss's (Fred MacMurrary) mistress, played by Shirley MacLaine. To say the least, this complicates things slightly. Well this movie is considered to be a comedy and at times it's funny, but not necessarily laugh-out-loud...because we all know those movies very rarely win Oscars. There also is a nice element of drama to the film. The characters are all played by great actors who have chemistry with each other and play convincing people who are far from perfect. I really enjoyed this movie. I had never seen it before and had heard good things about it and I thought that it was very well made and had an interesting story, that makes it a lot better than many romantic comedies out there. For the record there are very few romantic comedies that aren't a horrible movie-watching experience. If you like any of those actors or just enjoy classic black and white movies then give it a try.
-Joseph Sbrilli
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