The Apartment

There are some movies that just stand up years past their time, even when just about everything they reference is completely out of date. “The Apartment” is one of those. It’s set in a world that’s hardly even recognizable (starting with the complete lack of sexual harassment lawsuits, and moving through an inconceivably drunken office Christmas party), but it’s still warm, funny, touching. Fred MacMurray is a marvelously self-involved cad, Jack Lemmon is the guy who goes along to get along, and Shirley MacLaine is unbelievably fetching as the elevator girl who always falls for the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. Best line: “I guess that’s the way it crumbles, cookie-wise.”