Joe's Apartment (1996)

A nice guy has just moved to New York and discovers that he must share his run-down apartment with a couple thousand singing, dancing cockroaches.

Director:

John Payson

Writers:

John Payson (short film), John Payson (screenplay)

Stars:

Jerry O'Connell, Megan Ward, Billy West

2 wins.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Jerry O'Connell	...	Joe
Megan Ward	...	Lily Dougherty
Billy West	...	Ralph Roach (voice)
Reginald Hudlin	...	Rodney Roach (voice)
Jim Turner	...	Walter Shit / Voice of Cockroach
Sandra 'Pepa' Denton	...	Blank (as Sandra Denton)
Robert Vaughn	...	Senator Dougherty
Don Ho	...	Alberto Bianco
Jim Sterling	...	Jesus Bianco / Voice of Cockroach
Shiek Mahmud-Bey	...	Vladimir Bianco
David Huddleston	...	P.I. Smith
Frank Bello	...	Stick-Up Man #1
Lord Kayson	...	Stick-Up Man #2
Alejandro Molina	...	Stick-Up Man #3
Wayman Ezell	...	Apartment Broker #1

Storyline

Joe comes from Iowa to New York and, being short of money, wants to find an apartment with very low rent. His quest is successful, but he must share the residence with some 50,000 cockroaches. The insects turn out to be Joe's best friends.

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Plot Keywords:

apartment | new york | singing | insect | punctuation in title | 

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Taglines:

Sex Bugs Rock 'n Roll.

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Genres:

Comedy | Fantasy | Musical | Sci-Fi

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for crude humor and a brief drug reference

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

26 July 1996 (USA)

Also Known As:

Joes lya

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$13,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$1,854,000 (USA) (26 July 1996)

Gross:

$4,611,624 (USA) (6 September 1996)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Geffen Pictures, MTV Networks, Warner Bros.

Technical Specs

Runtime:

80 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital SDDS

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The first ever feature film produced by MTV Networks.

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Goofs

An African elephant, identifiable by its long ears, passes through town and Joe collects its dung. Later, flowers grow on the dung and he presents them to Lily, who says that the flowers only grow on the dung of elephants native to southeast Asia. Lily claims to have written her senior thesis on this species of flower, so it is unlikely that she has misidentified them or that she is mistaken about where they grow.

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Quotes

Roaches: Welcome to Joe's apartment, it's our apartment too/We've been around for a hundred billion years and we'll be here long after you!/(ba ba ba ba ba)/Let's go to our place it's a great big space it's where I wanna be/Where friends all meet and life is sweet cuz everything's for free/It's the joint, it's a gas/It's a big fat boot in the ass (kick your ass)/Let's toast raise your glass here's to Joe! A man with class!/(burp) Sooooo... hello from Joe's apartment you're gonna love the view/It's the ...

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Crazy Credits

Filmed entirely in New York City except for one scene we had to go to Newark for.

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Connections

Referenced in Infected (2008)

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Soundtracks

"Discharge"
Written by Bill Laswell, Sonny Sharrock & R.S. Jackson
Performed by Last Exit
Courtesy of Enemy Productions, Inc.

User Reviews

A wonderfully imaginative movie

Ignore the negative rabble expressed above. Rent the movie, and I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. "Joe's Apartment" has more creativity and originality in it than most of the films I've seen in 1999. Great concept, great animation/set designs, great fun.