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The Shop Around the Corner
Why this pick
Its tender, witty romance finds warmth and loneliness amid workplace routines, with exquisitely paced misunderstandings and the same humane balance of sparkle and melancholy.
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MOVIE1960 2h 5m USA
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Some Like It Hot
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Wilder pairs razor-sharp comic construction with vulnerable characters improvising their way through romantic and social complications; it shares The Apartment’s sophisticated, bittersweet comic intelligence.
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The Fortune Cookie
Why this pick
Another Wilder and Lemmon collaboration, built around a decent man pulled into cynical workplace schemes. Its dry comedy gradually makes room for genuine moral and emotional stakes.
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The Goodbye Girl
Why this pick
A funny, adult New York relationship comedy with prickly strangers, cramped living arrangements, and an affection for flawed people learning to drop their defenses.
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The Front Page
Why this pick
Wilder’s brisk newsroom farce offers corrosive institutional satire, rat-a-tat dialogue, and comic momentum, while retaining his sharp eye for compromises people make to get ahead.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
C. C. "Bud" Baxter is a lonely office drudge at a national insurance corporation in a high-rise building in New York City. In order to climb the corporate ladder, Bud allows four company managers to take turns borrowing his Upper West Side apartment for their various extramarital liaisons, which are so noisy that his neighbors assume that Bud is a playboy bringing home a different woman every night.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Jack Lemmon
C.C. Baxter
Shirley MacLaine
Fran Kubelik
Fred MacMurray
Jeff D. Sheldrake
Ray Walston
Joe Dobisch
David Lewis
Al Kirkeby
Hope Holiday
Mrs. Margie MacDougall
Joan Shawlee
Sylvia
Naomi Stevens
Mrs. Mildred Dreyfuss