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The Michelle Apartments (1995)

The Michelle Apartments poster
Directed by
John Pozer
Genre
comedy film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 31m
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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A government auditor travels to a small town for work. He gets stuck in a rundown apartment building and starts an affair with a neighbor. Her husband gets out of prison and things go badly.

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What happens

The Michelle Apartments is a 1995 Canadian black comedy film directed by John Pozer and written by Ross Weber. The film stars Henry Czerny as Alex Hartwell, a government auditor sent to the small town of Walton to review the books of a chemical company. When his hotel room is mistakenly given to another client, he is forced to take a room in the Michelle Apartments, where he is drawn into a romantic attraction to his neighbour Madeline (Mary Beth Rubens), whose husband Dean (Daniel Kash) is in prison. When Dean is released and comes home to find Madeline and Alex kissing, events spiral into a murderous chaos. The cast also includes Peter Outerbridge, Nancy Beatty and Maria Vacratsis. The film premiered at the 1995 Toronto International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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