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SOME LIKE IT HOT
U.S., 1959
Directed by Billy Wilder
Starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon
Screenplay by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond
WINNER Golden Globe Award – Best Performance by an Actor (Jack Lemmon), 1960
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 Moffitt, The Hollywood Reporter