Some Like It Hot
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81% Critic Match

Some Like It Hot

The movie too HOT for words!

8.1 / 10 1959 2h 3mNR English
ComedyRomanceCrime

Storyline

In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne, but further complications set in.

Cast & Crew

Tony Curtis

Tony Curtis

Joe (Josephine)

Lead
Jack Lemmon

Jack Lemmon

Jerry (Daphne)

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe

Sugar Kane Kowalczyk

George Raft

George Raft

Spats Colombo

Pat O'Brien

Pat O'Brien

Detective Mulligan

Joe E. Brown

Joe E. Brown

Osgood Fielding III

Nehemiah Persoff

Nehemiah Persoff

Little Bonaparte

Joan Shawlee

Joan Shawlee

Sweet Sue

What People Are Saying

4.0
A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Billy Wilder's vision lands with breathtaking precision.
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
4.0
Every frame feels alive. Some Like It Hot is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker