1960 Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray. Lemmon works at a big New York firm and has gotten into a situation where he loans out his apartment on weeknights to his bosses so they have a place to take their mistresses. MacLaine is elevator operator is said firm, and is the mistress of big boss MacMurray. Lemmon falls in love, MacLaine is distraught that MacMurray won't actually leave his wife, and lots of misunderstandings with the neighbors, the other bosses, and between the two pawns in this story leads to true love.
What was striking about this RomCom was how dark it was. There was near death and clear condemnation of violating moral codes. And it wasn't really funny, but instead occasionally clever. I found this intriguing, both as a film watched in 2019, but also as a study of 1960.
4 stars (out of 5)
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