Joe's Apartment
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| Directed by | John Payson |
| Produced by | Bonni Lee Diana Phillips Griffin Dunne Judy McGrath |
| Screenplay by | John Payson |
| Story by | Greg Wight, GR Wight |
| Based on | Joe's Apt by John Payson |
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| Music by | Carter Burwell |
| Cinematography | Peter Deming |
| Edited by | Peter Frank |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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77 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $13 million |
| Box office | $4,619,014 |
Joe's Apartment is a 1996 musical-comedy film starring Jerry O'Connell and Megan Ward and the first film produced by MTV Films. It was based on a 1992 short film first made for MTV. The film was directed by John Payson, with computer-animated sequences supervised by Chris Wedge through Blue Sky Studios.
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 (as they do many times in the movie) and even have their own public-access television cable TV channel. Actors providing the roaches' voices included Billy West, Jim Turner, Rick Aviles (in his final film role before his death) and Dave Chappelle.
Penniless and straight out of the University of Iowa, Joe (Jerry O'Connell) moves to New York needing an apartment and a job. With the fortuitous death of Mrs. Grotowski, an artist named Walter Shit (Jim Turner) helps Joe to take over the last rent controlled apartment in a building slated for demolition. If Senator Dougherty (Robert Vaughn) can empty the building, he can make way for the prison he intends to build there, and uses thug Alberto Bianco (Don Ho) and his nephews, Vlad (Shiek Mahmud-Bey) and Jesus (Jim Sterling), to intimidate tenants (see landlord harassment).
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