Some Like It Hot (1959) Parents Guide: Is the movie OK for kids?

Bontent's parent guide suggests Some Like It Hot is best for ages 13+. It's rated NR. After witnessing a mob hit, two musicians disguise themselves as women and join an all-female jazz band to go into hiding. Though unrated, the film is recommended for ages 13 and up due to its premise involving a…

Some Like It Hot is officially rated NR. Bontent's independent parent guide recommends it for ages 13+.

After witnessing a mob hit, two musicians disguise themselves as women and join an all-female jazz band to go into hiding. Though unrated, the film is recommended for ages 13 and up due to its premise involving a stylized gangland shooting and mild suggestive humor surrounding the gender-swapping plot. The film…

Comedy gender-bending — handled with complete innocence. Marilyn Monroe's performance is simultaneously funny and magnetic.

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre — brief but the engine that drives the entire comedy.

None of note.

Prohibition bootlegging as period texture.

The film's final line — 'Nobody's perfect' — is one of cinema's great endings. Joe E. Brown's Osgood entirely unbothered by the revelation that Daphne is Jerry. A film decades ahead of its time in its treatment of gender.

Some Like It Hot runs 121 minutes, directed by Billy Wilder, released in 1959.

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