Movie #63: Some Like It Hot

Movie #: 63
Movie Title: Some Like It Hot
Year Released: 1959

Director: Billy Wilder
Notable Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft, Joe E. Brown, Pat O'Brien

Short Description: When two musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in. (IMDB.com)


Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)

AFI.com: #22
IMDB.com: #88
Ranker.com: N/A
Lifed.com: #71
Empire.com: #27
FilmCrave.com: N/A
FlickChart.com: N/A



Date Watched: 8/14/2016

Grade: 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)

Rationale: Some Like It Hot had an amusing, but not quite laugh out loud funny, plot with Tony Curtis' Joe and Jack Lemmon's Jerry pretending to be women and somehow pulling it off despite being kind of ugly and man-ish while in drag. Marilyn Monroe was better than I expected and all three of the leads had good on screen chemistry. I did want to punch Lemmon by the end because his laugh was so fake and over the top, but that was my only annoyance.