JOE'S APARTMENT

Joe's Apartment is a 1996 film based on a 1992 short film of the same name that was regularly shown on MTV. Both the film and the short is about a schlub who lives in a cramped dingy apartment with a bunch of talking--and singing!--cockroaches. Yes, you heard THAT right! The film stars--of course!--Jerry O'Connell as schlub Joe. (I don't recall who starred in the 1992 short film, though it wasn't Jerry.) The film was the first flick put out by--of course!--MTV (back when they were STILL playing music videos, by the way). While the film wasn't a box office hit (go figure!), it has since gone on to become a sort of cult classic (again, go figure!). For those who haven't had the, uh-hum, pleasure of seeing this particular flick yet, if you, uh-hum, enjoy spending 90 minutes watching a bunch of talking--and singing!--cockroaches and/or watching Jerry O'Connell do things like literally pick up shit (which, of course, could very well be the PERFECT metaphor for his "acting" career!), then Joe's Apartment might--and I say MIGHT!--very well be the PERFECT flick for you! A sidenote: This blog's namesake the late Roger Ebert, for those who are interested, wrote in his review of Joe's Apartment: "Joe's Apartment would be a very bad comedy even without the roaches, but it would not be a disgusting one. No, wait: I take that back. Even without the roaches, we would still have the subplot involving the pink disinfectant urinal cakes." Oh yeah, did I also mention there was a sort of "subplot" in the film about pink urinal cakes?

Here's the MTV film short of Joe's Apartment (which, in my view, was far more "entertaining" then the film): 

And, while we're at it, here's one of the, um, musical numbers in the movie version of Joe's Apartment (my apologies in advance!):