Joe's Apartment (1996)

Directed by

John Payson

Genre

fantasy film, comedy film, musical film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 18m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 382 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man named Joe moves into a rundown New York apartment and discovers it is overrun by talking, singing cockroaches. The roaches help him navigate city life and win the heart of a woman.

quirkywhimsicalcomedicmusicalsillycheerfuloffbeat

What happens

Joe's Apartment is a 1996 American musical black comedy film written and directed by John Payson (in his feature directorial debut), based on his 1992 short film of the same name, and starring Jerry O'Connell and Megan Ward. The main focus of the story is the fact that, unbeknownst to many humans, cockroaches can talk, but prefer not to, as humans "smush first and ask questions later". They also sing and even have their own public-access television cable TV channel. Actors providing the roaches' voices included Billy West (in his feature film debut), Jim Turner, Rick Aviles (in his final film role), Tim Blake Nelson, BD Wong, and Dave Chappelle. Joe's Apartment was the first MTV Films production and the first film Blue Sky Studios was involved in. It is also the only MTV Films production made without the involvement of Paramount Pictures. The film was released by Warner Bros. on July 26, 1996 and received generally negative reviews from critics and was a box-office bomb, merely grossing over $4 million against a budget of $13 million. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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