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SOME LIKE IT HOT

U.S., 1959
Directed by Billy Wilder
Screenplay by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond
Starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon
Approx. 120 min. 4K DCP.


Chicago, 1929, and jazz musicians Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis get a rare look at history in the making: only trouble is, it’s the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre. Time to don high heels, girdles, and falsies to join an all-girl band with sultry chanteuse Marilyn Monroe?

Reviews

“Still perfect all these years later”
– Cath Clarke, Time Out

“Effortlessly fluent, joyous and buoyant: a high-concept comedy that stays as high as a kite.”
– Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

“A supersonic, breakneck, belly-laugh comedy ”
– Jack Moffit, The Hollywood Reporter

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