Joe's Apartment (1996)

User Rating:

5.0/10   

Director:

John Payson

Writers (WGA):

John Payson (short film)
John Payson (screenplay)

Release Date:

26 July 1996 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Musical | Fantasy

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.

Plot Keywords:

Apartment | New York | Singing | Insect | Part Stop Motion

Awards:

2 wins

Cast

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

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

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)

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Geffen Pictures

Trivia:

The first ever feature film produced by MTV Networks.

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.

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!

Movie Connections:

Spoofs First Blood (1982)

Soundtrack:

Sewer Surfin'

Funny little singing critters

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.