I'm not a huge fan of classics or comedies, but this movie had a smile on my face the whole way through, accompanied with frequent bouts of laughter. Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis were very amusing in AND out of drag and were downright hilarious! There were quite a few funny exchanges between other characters as well. This movie was an unexpected inspiration for the TV show Bosom Buddies, which a... read more
Description: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 escapMaybe "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 behavior. The results, however, are sublime. --Robert Horton... (more)(less)
Manufacturer : MGM (Video & DVD) Release date : 22 May 2001 Number of discs : 1 EAN: 9780792849612 UPC: 027616858993
“I'm not a huge fan of classics or comedies, but this movie had a smile on my face the whole way through, accompanied with frequent bouts of laughter. Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis were very amusing in AND out of drag and were downright hilarious! There were quite a few funny exchanges between other characters as well. This movie was an unexpected inspiration for the TV show Bosom Buddies, which according to Wikipedia, "was conceived by Miller and Boyett as a male counterpart to their hit sitcom Laverne & Shirley. They originally pitched it as a straightforward buddy comedy done in what they described as "a sophisticated Billy Wilder kind of way." When ABC executives asked Miller and Boyett to explain what they meant by the comparison to Wilder, the producers mentioned Some Like It Hot and” read more
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