The Apartment Drinking Game Rules
Play this The Apartment drinking game and let Billy Wilderâs 1960 classic set the pace. You follow C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) as he loans out his apartment to company bosses and pays for it in lost sleep and lost pride. Shirley MacLaine brings the heart as Fran Kubelik, and Fred MacMurray keeps the pressure on as Sheldrake. The jokes hit fast, but the stakes keep rising.
This movie works great for a watch party because the office politics repeat, the key handoffs never stop, and the small props matter. The rules lean into Baxterâs nightly shuffle, the executive parade, and the moments that flip the tone. Keep water nearby and settle in for the full 125 minutes.
The Apartment Drinking Game Rules:
- Take a sip any time Baxter is shown handing over, borrowing, or hunting for his apartment key
- Take a sip each time an executive schedules time at Baxterâs place like it is a calendar booking
- Take a sip whenever Franâs elevator door opens and she goes into âoperator modeâ at work
- Drink any time Sheldrake pulls Baxter aside for a private chat or a âfavorâ
- Drink when Baxter gets praised for being a âgood guy,â a âpal,â or a helpful company man
- Drink each time Baxter ends up outside late because he cannot get into his own apartment
- Drink when Baxter uses a weird kitchen workaround (like the tennis racket spaghetti strainer)
- Take a sip whenever the movie points out the office grind (endless desks, paperwork, or the sea of workers)
- Drink any time the compact mirror becomes a clue, a sore spot, or a turning point for Fran
- Take a sip when Dobisch, Kirkeby, Vanderhoff, or Eichelberger shows up to complain about being âneglectedâ
- Drink when Dr. Dreyfuss gives Baxter a stern talk about morals, manners, or what the neighbors think
- Drink any time holiday cheer clashes with bad behavior (Christmas party scenes, office cheer, or forced smiles)
- Finish your drink when Baxter finds Fran after her overdose and the movie shifts from funny to scary
- Drink when Baxter makes his stand and refuses to keep playing along with Sheldrakeâs game
- Finish your drink when Fran returns for the final scene and the line âShut up and dealâ lands
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About the Movie
- Title
- The Apartment
- Released
- 29 Jun 1960
- Rated
- Approved
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Genre
- Comedy
- Plot
- As of November 1, 1959, mild mannered C.C. Baxter has been working at Consolidated Life, an insurance company, for close to four years, and is one of close to thirty-two thousand employees located in their Manhattan head office. To distinguish himself from all the other lowly cogs in the company in the hopes of moving up the corporate ladder, he often works late, but only because he can't get into his apartment, located off of Central Park West, since he has provided it to a handful of company executives - Mssrs. Dobisch, Kirkeby, Vanderhoff and Eichelberger - on a rotating basis for their extramarital liaisons in return for a good word to the personnel director, Jeff D. Sheldrake. When Baxter is called into Sheldrake's office for the first time, he learns that it isn't just to be promoted as he expects, but also to add married Sheldrake to the list to who he will lend his apartment. Dobisch, Kirkeby, Vanderhoff and Eichelberger are now feeling neglected as Baxter no longer needs their assistance in moving up.
- Language
- English
