Joe's Apartment

Joe's Apartment
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	John Payson
Written by	John Payson
Based on	Joe's Apartment by John Payson
Produced by	Diana Phillips Bonni Lee
Starring	Jerry O'Connell Megan Ward
Cinematography	Peter Deming
Edited by	Peter Frank
Music by	Carter Burwell
Production companies	The Geffen Film Company MTV Productions
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	July 26, 1996 (1996-07-26)
Running time	80 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$13 million
Box office	$4.6 million[1]

Joe's Apartment is a 1996 American musical black comedy film written and directed by John Payson (in his feature directorial debut), based on his 1992 short film of the same name, and starring Jerry O'Connell and Megan Ward. The first MTV Films production, it was the only one not to involve Paramount Pictures (the 2019 film Eli, which was distributed by Netflix, still had the involvement of Paramount). It was also the first film Blue Sky Studios was involved in.

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 and even have their own public-access television cable TV channel. Actors providing the roaches' voices included Billy West (in his feature film debut), Jim Turner, Rick Aviles (in his final film role before his death), Tim Blake Nelson, BD Wong, and Dave Chappelle. The film received generally negative reviews from critics and was a box office failure.