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• Drama
• Crime/detective

• 2002
• Rob Marshall
• 108 mins
• 12

Summary

Oscar-winning musical starring Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renée Zellweger and Richard Gere. In 1920s Chicago, chorus girl Roxie Hart shoots her lover and winds up in jail, believing her dreams of stardom are over. Enter hotshot lawyer Billy Flynn, whose clients include double murderess Velma Kelly, and Roxie begins to realise that there's no such thing as bad publicity.

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Brian Pendreigh

It took more than a quarter of a century to bring the 1975 musical Chicago to the screen, but it was worth the wait to get it right. In this spirited film adaptation, Renée Zellweger stars as Roxie Hart, the ambitious newcomer who dreams of singing and dancing in one of the city's jazz clubs, and Catherine Zeta-Jones plays Velma, the established performer. After the shootings of a lover and an unfaithful husband, they end up in prison and discover that the publicity surrounding a capital murder case can be a boon to a career in showbusiness. Director Rob Marshall licks the problem of how to film a musical that was presented as vaudeville on stage - it's closer to that style of short scenes and "turns" than to conventional musical comedy - by re-creating the musical numbers as fantasies in Roxie's head. He loses none of the energy of the stage version nor its dark subtext on the corrupting nature of stardom. Oscar-nominated Zellweger is perfect casting despite - or perhaps even because of - her inexperience in the genre, while the Oscar-winning Zeta-Jones sings and high-kicks as if born on Broadway.

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Cast

rolenameVelma KellyCatherine Zeta-JonesRoxie HartRenée ZellwegerBilly FlynnRichard GereMatron "Mama" MortonQueen Latifah Mary SunshineChristine BaranskiAmos HartJohn C ReillyThe Band LeaderTaye DiggsFred CaselyDominic WestGo-to-Hell KittyLucy LiuMartin HarrisonColm FeoreMonaMya The JudgeChita Rivera

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rolenameDirectorRob Marshall

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Theatrical distributor

Buena Vista

Released on

2002-12-27

Languages

English | Hungarian

Guidance

Violence, swearing, sexual references

Available on

video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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