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www.flickfilosopher.com - : Only a man could have written this movie (it was Billy Wilder, and he directed, too). And only men could have written all the glowing reviews of The Apartment that I've found both online and off (one notable exception is at Nick Davis's Movie Archive -- he finds the movie as distasteful as I do). The Apartment is a perfect demonstration of why ''nice guys'' get a bad rap from women, but that seems to go right over the head of all those men praising it. more...
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www.movie-vault.com - : Sometimes, movies are made up by smaller moments. The Apartment is one of those movies. The overall plot is another re-telling of the classic love triangle. Two guys, both in love with the same girl. Of course, movies like this depend on the girl being special. Is she's ordinary or even boring, the movie falls flat on it's face and the audience doesn't really care. The Apartment goes above and beyond by not only giving us an interesting girl but also two interesting and drastically different men. more...
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www.toxicuniverse.com - : There was a time when moving up the corporate ladder was a perfectly logical choice, and compromises were regarded as minor irritations. Trapped with mentality where men prostituted themselves to the corporation in pursuit of promotion, C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) slaves for a large Manhattan insurance company, crunching numbers by day and lending his apartment key to corporate executives after hours in Billy Wilder’s 1960 Oscar winner, The Apartment. more...
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