Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Joe E. Brown, George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Nehemiah Persoff, George E. Stone, Joan Shawlee, Billy Gray, Mike Mazurki, Edward G. Robinson, Tom Kennedy, Harry Wilson

Director: Billy Wilder

Summary: Billy Wilder's classic SOME LIKE IT HOT is one of Hollywood's most beloved comedies. Two musicians (the outrageously hilarious Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis) are forced to go on the run from gangsters and end up posing as women in an all-girl band, which includes a never-better Marilyn Monroe. While Curtis falls for Monroe, Lemmon gets stuck with Joe E. Brown. The film is ranked number 1 on the American Film Institute's list of America's 100 Funniest Movies.

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Maybe "nobody's perfect", as one character in this masterpiece suggests. But some movies are perfect, and Some Like It Hot is one of them. In Chicago, during the Prohibition era, two skirt-chasing musicians, Joe and Jerry (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon), inadvertently witness the St Valentine's Day Massacre. In order to escape the wrath of gangland chief Spats Colombo (George Raft), the boys, in drag, join an all-woman band headed for Florida. They vie for the attention of the lead singer, Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe), a much-disappointed songbird who warbles "I'm Through with Love" but remains vulnerable to yet another unreliable saxophone player. (When Curtis courts her without his dress, he adopts the voice of Cary Grant--a spot-on impersonation.) The script by director Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is beautifully measured; everything works, like a flawless clock. Aspiring screenwriters would be well advised to throw away the how-to books and simply study this film. The bulk of the slapstick is handled by an unhinged Lemmon and the razor-sharp Joe E. Brown, who plays a horny retiree smitten by Jerry's feminine charms. For all the gags, the film is also wonderfully romantic, as Wilder indulges in just the right amounts of moonlight and the lilting melody of "Park Avenue Fantasy". Some Like It Hot is so delightfully fizzy, it's hard to believe the shooting of the film was a headache, with an unhappy Monroe on her worst behaviour. The results, however, are sublime. --Robert Horton

Aspect Ratio:	16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Interactive Menus, Scene Selection, Original Theatrical Trailer
Subtitles:	Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
Year:	1959
Release Date:	October 9, 2000
Runtime:	117 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	16221 D V D
Keywords:	Like, Comedy, Hot, General, Wide, Screen, Some
Genre:	Comedy