“That's the way it crumbles... cookie-wise.”
C.C. Baxter [Jack Lemmon] rents out his apartment to married men so they can… have some extramarital affairs. They’re all guys in the office so they refer him to the boss man and he slowly gets his way up to the higher floors. Doesn’t sound too bad right? Well his world comes crumbling down once he finds out that the elevator girl, Fran [Shirley MacLaine] he’s falling for has already been to his apartment, and he didn’t lead her there.
Fran’s been seeing the boss man and thinks he’s going to leave his wife for her. She tries to push him away but keeps falling into his tricks. He’s been at this for years, seeing a different girl from the office, breaking their heart then moving on to the next one. She finds out about this and as you can imagine, is devastated. She takes one too many sleeping pills over at Baxter’s apartment the night he’s about to get lucky.
He takes care of her, first because the boss asked for his help but then he gets over his heartache and keeps at it with Fran. Too bad for him she’s still too wound up with the bad guy.
This movie is very appealing because it’s elegant, somewhat innocent, quirky and funny. Baxter is a really good guy who keeps a smile on his face, jokes around and can’t really say “no.” But by falling in love he slowly starts overcoming that and starts putting his foot down. You can’t help but hope that Fran opens her eyes and sees how in-love Baxter is with her.
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