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The apartment sos

Jun 16

2025

Coolidge Corner Theatre Brookline, MA

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Juliet B. Schor

Economist; Professor of Sociology at Boston College; Author

The Apartment— Can the four-day work week eliminate worker burnout?

In Billy Wilder’s Academy Award-winning dramedy, C.C. Bud Baxter (Jack Lemmon) is a lowly Manhattan office drone who can’t catch a break. Before the film, bestselling author and Boston College economist and professor of sociology Juliet B. Schor will make the case for the four-day work week to address worker burnout.

Coolidge Corner Theatre Brookline, MA

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Film Synopsis

A Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but office politics and his own romantic hopes complicate matters.

    In 1960, following the success of their collaboration on Some Like it Hot, director Billy Wilder reteamed with star Jack Lemmon for what many consider the pinnacle of their respective careers.

    C.C. Bud Baxter (Lemmon) is a lowly Manhattan office drone with a lucrative sideline in renting out his apartment to adulterous company bosses and their mistresses. When Bud enters into a similar arrangement with the firm's personnel director, J.D. Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray), his career prospects begin to look up... and up. But when he discovers that Sheldrake's mistress is Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine), the girl of his dreams, he finds himself forced to choose between his career and the woman he loves...

    Photo credit: United Artists

    About the Speaker

    Juliet B. Schor is an economist and a professor of sociology at Boston College and is the bestselling author of numerous books, including The Overworked American, After the Gig, and The Overspent American. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has been featured across national and international media, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, People, 60 Minutes, The Today Show, and Good Morning America. Her 2022 TED Talk, The Case for a 4-Day Work Week, has been viewed more than three million times.