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The Seven Year Itch

The Seven Year Itch

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Marilyn and Tom Spell Trouble
Review: Marilyn and Tom speel trouble in this all time great classic movie .....Richard is a happly married man with a wife and one child untill the GIRL(MARILYN) shows up and makes him go crazy...you see richard had caught THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH desiese and Marilyn is his VICTOM!This is a mast for every monroe lover!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Isn't it delicious?
Review: Richard Sherrman has fallen head-over-heels for his new neighbor, a voluptuous blonde... er, actress. The only problem is that he's married. But that doesn't seem to faze the girl: "Oh, I think that it's wonderful that you're married! Because with a married man, no matter what, he can't ask you to marry him!" Right... but that doesn't mean he can't have a little fun... with his wife away for the summer.

Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell team up in this delightfully delicious sex farce directed by Billy Wilder. The sizzling script blended with Monroe's hopelessly dazzling appeal set the tone for the story.

Richard quickly learns a great deal about his new neighbor: She has posed for U.S. Camera, she appears in commercials for Dazzledent toothpaste (and gets to speak lines, too), and she keeps her undies in the icebox on hot nights.

Over the course of the next few weeks, Richard does the neighborly thing by inviting his charming, sexy, hopelessly ditzy neighbor up for a drink, charming her with records of Rock Monanoff: "Is this what they call classical music? I can tell 'cause there's no vocal." He escorts her to the theater and home again, walking right over a windy subway grate: "Isn't it delicious?" (The image of Monroe with skirts flying over the subway sparked one of the most memorable seconds in film history).

At film's end, Richard reluctantly succumbs to pangs of conscience and the girl's own, honest wisdom comes through. Despite the end of the illicit affair, the film is very much worth seeing, for comic scenes busting with laughs, fun, and the most of Marilyn Monroe's sex appeal ever captured on film. This is one of the great comedies, extremely funny, and absolutely timeless. This is one to watch on a hot night... with air-conditioning. And don't forget the champagne and potato chips.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Great film, with a line I've been waiting for all my life.
Review: The seven year itch is a really good film.And Billly Wilder and Marilyn Monroe were probably the best team of the fifties. Billy Wilder was the only one who could use perfectly Marilyn's sexuality on screen. Never was it more compelling to watch her on screen than this film and"Some like it hot". Though "Some like it hot" is much better, the best comedy ever made, this one has a freshness to it and a sort of underlying tone which is refering to Monroe's intelligence. Watching her films, you always feel that she means what she is saying, but in this one, you think that she knows better than what she is really saying. You feel a sort of contradiction between what she is saying and what she is thinking. That's a different Monroe.And what did it for me, was when Tom Ewell tells the man spending time with his wife, that Marilyn Monroe could be in his kitchen. I've been wiating all my life to hear this. Whenever a star is in a movie, you always mention others stars, that have no links what so ever with the film or the actor. But why not use the real stars. The one who is character in the picture. This one does, and only Billy Wilder could do such a brilliant thing. It's small alright. But so smart....

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Get the "Itch"
Review: If you want to know the reason Marilyn still fascinates us almost 30 years after her death, buy this movie. Her combination of sexuality and vulnerability is perfectly showcased here.

Believe me, when Marilyn first appears on the screen holding her fan and bag of groceries, you'll be blown away just as Tom Ewell's character is.

Contrary to popular belief, I do not consider her role here a "dumb blonde" or a "ditz". The character is innocent, naive, and oh so enchanting.

This film is pure Marilyn magic!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Not one of Marilyn
Review: I have been a HUGE Marilyn fan ever since the age of 10 (I'm now 22). I have almost all of her movies and adore her. However, I have still not been able to sit through the end of this movie. I think this movie makes Marilyn look like a "brainless, stupid blond bimbo". Whatever made Marilyn pick this role is confusing to me. However, this movie boosted her career. She had so much talent and i can't stand to watch her act so "ditzy". I always fast forward the movie to the scene where he skirt blows up, what a classic moment. sorry Marilyn)

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: My Favorite Marilyn Movie
Review: I am a huge fan of Marilyn and my goal is to see all of her movies and when I saw "The 7 Year Itch" I was blown away. Marilyn was wonderful in the movie playing the sexy girl upstairs that attracts an older man living downstairs while his wife and son are away for summer vacation. I think everyone who loves Marilyn Monroe should see this movie it is one of her best and i'm sure that u will soon agree.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Marilyn favorite
Review: This was the first Marilyn movie I ever saw at the age of 13. Since then I have been a huge Marilyn fan(atic). This is one of her funniest movies (along with Some Like It Hot). Marilyn's innocense plays off her sexuallity very well. This comedy is upbeat, and though set in the fifties, it hasn't been affected by age at all. The theme itself is thousands of years old, (when the cat's away, the mice will play). My favorite scene is not the skirt blower however. It's right at the end when Marilyn is waving good-bye to Tom Ewell from the window. For a second you see why millions have fallen in love with her. The mixture of satisfaction and sadness on her face makes her perhaps the most beautiful woman who ever lived

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A TRUE CLASSIC!
Review: This movie is such a funny, sweet, story in which marilyn's character doesnt even have a name. What she does have is an excellent role which she portrays perfectly as the girl upstairs, and a true flair for comedy, and a great wardrobe! Tom Ewell is also really great in this classic MM film. END

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The growing height of Marilyn's career
Review: Too bad Marilyn Monroe didn't have kids, to carry on the legacy maybe, because she was something. This movie sure proves it. I think this movie shows Marilyn acting more comortably in front of the screen and I think this is when she began to become a Hollywood superstar. Everyone wanted to be like her. I think this movie is really funny and entertaining and is worth a rent, but GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES {1953} IS MY VERY FAVE, THAT'S HER SECOND OR THIRD MAYJOR HIT, THAT ONE PARTICULAR SPARKED HER CAREER AS WELL AS THE SEVENYEARITCH. SEE IT, YOU WON'T BE DISAPOINTED!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Seven Year Itch- One of the top ten Comedies ever
Review: Nobody should die without seeing this masterpiece comedy at least 1 time.

There is no doubt that this film was influential to many other great comedy films. Ideas like the main character thinking out loud and narrating the movie was used in Ferris Bueller. Ideas like using the main characters fantasies for a laugh was used in the movie A christmas story. Ofcourse this films discussion of sexual tension between males and females has been used many times in movies like American Pie. Ofcourse by todays standards The seven year itch is a classy film compared to films like American Pie. The Seven year itch did it all and influenced some of the greatest comedies of my generation(80's to present).

casting=5 stars
ending=4.5 stars
Directing=5 stars
plot & storyline=5 stars
replay value=5 stars

OVERALL= 4.9 TOTAL STARS

DVD FEATURES: The Seven year itch has awesome DVD features. The AMC backstory explains how Tom Ewell was picked as the starring role, how the censors almost ruined the movie, and Joe Dimmagios reaction to his wife Marilyn Monroes controversial subway scene. Also included is 2 deleted scenes, restoration comparisons and previews for other Marilyn films...


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