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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.

Overview

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5.0/10   5,102 votes
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Director:
John Payson
Writers (WGA):
John Payson (short film)
John Payson (screenplay)
Contact:
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Release Date:
26 July 1996 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Musical | Fantasy more
Tagline:
Sex Bugs Rock 'n Roll.
Plot:
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. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
2 wins more
User Comments:
Funny little singing critters more (55 total)

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
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for crude humor and a brief drug reference.
Runtime:
80 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital | SDDS
Certification:
Iceland:L | USA:PG-13 (certificate #34647) | Finland:S | Germany:12 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Canada:PG | Denmark:12 | Sweden:15 | UK:12 (video premiere)

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Trivia:
The first ever feature film produced by MTV Networks. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: 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. more
Quotes:
Walter Shit: Congratulate me! This is my first work to use paint! I call it instant minority. I did the whole block!
Joe: But people are black or white, not purple.
Walter Shit: Periwinkle. It's periwinkle!
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Movie Connections:
Spoofs First Blood (1982) more
Soundtrack:
Sewer Surfin' more

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7 out of 9 people found the following comment useful.
Funny little singing critters, 24 October 2000
6/10
Author: lib-4 from Florida

Decided to pick a film I'd never heard of- this turned out to be very funny especially the songs of the cockroaches. Connolly plays a down on his luck character well and the scene at the 911 operations is hilarious-- even my son was laughing along with me. Whoever designed the set deserves credit for their creativity.. a funny film that deserved more credit than it got.

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