We Need the Eggs

For me, watching a Billy Wilder movie awakens a desire to travel back in time.  The 1950s and 1960s seem like the place to be for the pretentiousness I so often idolize.  But then again, I love my MacBook.

C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) is attempting to move up in his company by letting “the bosses” use his apartment to stage their affairs.  Things get a little dicey when his crush (Shirley MacLaine, before she believed in aliens) ends up in his apartment on a fling.  Funny, but transcends the mold we place romantic comedies into today by grappling with serious themes: divorce, adultery, suicide.  Certainly one of Billy Wilder’s essentials.  Also starring Fred MacMurray.