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Some Like It Hot (1959)
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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...
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| Some Like It Hot Movie Review by BuZZeRK (11/30/2007) |
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After watching Monroe in this 1958 comedy it's hard to believe that before the year 1962 rolled around she would be dead by her own doing. Apparently Monroe was already quite troubled when this movie went into production. She was becoming more and more difficult to work with and her temperament was becoming unpredictable....
(complete Some Like It Hot review by BuZZeRK)
It was named the funniest movie of all time, and that isn't just cause you get to see Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in drag.
This story of two men disguising themselves as women to avoid the mob who know they witnessed a murder, is a side-splitter.
Marilyn Monroe is at her sexiest here, she is a killer, but also innocent and...
(complete Some Like It Hot review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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