FAME READS / SCREEN NOTES
The Apartment
Scores
- IMDb8.3/10as of 2026-02-21
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer94%as of 2024-08-02
- Rotten Tomatoes average8.8/10as of 2021-10-05
- Metacritic94/100as of 2025-07-14
What it is
The Apartment is a 1960 American romantic comedy film directed and produced by Billy Wilder from a screenplay he co-wrote with I. A. L. Diamond. Jack Lemmon stars as an insurance clerk who, in hopes of climbing the corporate ladder, allows his superiors to use his Upper West Side apartment to conduct their extramarital affairs.
At a glance
- Genres
- Romance / Comedy / Drama
- Original language
- English
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