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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   5,113 votes
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Director:
John Payson
Writers (WGA):
John Payson (short film)
John Payson (screenplay)
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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
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Awards:
2 wins more
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User Comments:
Disgusting, outrageous, I loved nearly every minute of it 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.
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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)
Filming Locations:
New York City, New York, USA more
Company:
Geffen Pictures more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The first ever feature film produced by MTV Networks. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Joe and Lily are sitting on his couch after their first date, the position of his arm changes from lowered to around her shoulder between shots. more
Quotes:
Ralph Roach: We know where you live. We LIVE where you live! more
Movie Connections:
Spoofs First Blood (1982) more
Soundtrack:
Discharge more

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14 out of 20 people found the following comment useful.
Disgusting, outrageous, I loved nearly every minute of it, 15 April 2001
Author: MisterWhiplash from United States

Just remember, this is a critic who holds some of the most vile films ever (vile in a good way) in my list of best comedies ever (Dumb and Dumber, UHF, South Park), so it is not surprising that I found this movie enjoyable and funny. The movie stars Jerry O'Connell as a loser type who finds an apartment in NY's east side for 50 or 60 bucks, but then he also finds it is infested with more cockroaches than the DMV has idiots. I'm sure there will be some watching the movie who might think, this might be a good time to become bulemic, and for those people I don't reccomend the movie for the hurl factor. But for those who can take the chum of roaches on a face, in breasts, in toilets singing songs (I love the funky towel song), this movie is for you. By the way, this is the first MTV movie, so it shows that at first MTV might've had a good streak. Looks like execs can't take urinal cake jokes though. A

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