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Some Like It Hot
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Scores
- IMDb8.2/10as of 2026-03-07
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer94%as of 2022-11-29
- Rotten Tomatoes average9.1/10as of 2021-10-05
- Metacritic98/100as of 2025-06-16
What it is
Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American crime comedy film produced, co-written and directed by Billy Wilder. It stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, with George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee and Nehemiah Persoff in supporting roles. The screenplay by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond is based on a screenplay by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan from the 1935 French film Fanfare of Love.
At a glance
- Genres
- Romance / Comedy / Crime / Music / Drama
- Original language
- English
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