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Movie synopsis
This Hollywood adaptation of the classic Broadway musical sparkles with glamour and reverberates with the energy of good, old-fashioned song and dance. As the film leaps into its first riveting act, Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta-Jones), one half of the famous number she performs with her sister, arrives at the night club late, disheveled, and with blood on her hands. Nonetheless, she goes onstage unhindered and wows the crowd with her shimmying rendition of "All That Jazz." Roxie Hart (Renee Zellweger) a young blond who dreams of someday being famous like Velma, watches from the audience with eyes full of envy. Later, as the cops pick up Velma for the murder of her sister, sending her fame to all-time heights as she becomes a tabloid sensation, Roxie also commits a crime of passion--shooting a lover who falsely promised to secure her cabaret debut. The girls wind up together in jail, where Mama Morton (Queen Latifah), a compassionate guard, is their only hope of redemption; and Billy Flynn (Richard Gere) is the lawyer who can get them out. There, through wonderfully familiar songs like "Razzle Dazzle," "Cell-Block Tango," and "Cellophane Man" Roxie and Velma tell their story of competing for bad-girl celebrity.Director Rob Marshall presents a loveable CHICAGO that shares all the grit and grime of the Bob Fosse Broadway original with phenomenal performances by this grouping of Hollywood stars. The dizzying camerawork and dazzling sets make an easy transition from stage to film.

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  • Edition: P&S
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Film Country: USA
  • UPC: 031398135180

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Genre:Musical & Performing Arts
Format:DVD
Region:Region 1
Display Format:P&S

Director:Rob Marshall
Leading Role:Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones
eBay Product ID: EPID101762762
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"...It's Zeta-Jones who keeps you watching from start to finish....She refuses to let you go....If musicals are dreams, she is their greatest dreamer..."
Los Angeles Times - Manohla Dargis (12/27/2002)

"...It's the raw expenditure of energy and the canniness of the staging that should pull audiences in and keep them rooted..."
New York Times - Elvis Mitchell (12/27/2002)

"...CHICAGO shows how much the element of surprise is missing from today's movies....It's part of the basic Zeta-Jones bio that she can really sing, and, wow, can she..."
USA Today - Mike Clark (12/27/2002)

"...Zellweger wins our hearts. That's what makes her dangerous. Just like the movie....Dynamite..."
Rolling Stone - Peter Travers (01/23/2003)

"...Zeta-Jones, all legs and growls, has found her calling card..."
Film Comment - Michael Koresky (01/01/2003)

"...Fresh and daring....Queen Latifah and John C. Reilly are the surprise standouts..."
Box Office - Ray Greene (03/01/2003)

"...[The actors] deliver sizzling performances....This tawdry, hard-as-nails carnival of ghouls generates plenty of fireworks..."
Movieline's Hollywood Life - Stephen Farber (02/01/2003)

"...[Jones] makes nightclub singer Velma a droll fishnet virtuoso..."
Sight and Sound - David Jays (02/01/2003)

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Created: 06/18/06

Classic Musical Zellweger, Zeta-Jones, Latifah & Gere

With an all woman "jail house tango" number & a sexy group of murderous gals, this hit Broadway musical deserves to be immortalized on DVD.

Chicago is a film adaptation of Bob Fosse's (1975) choreographer-director's Broadway musical. The story is mainly about murderesses (played by Renee Zellweger & Catherine Zeta-Jones). It is set in Chicago during the Roaring 1920s after Roxy (Renee Zellweger) flips out after being treated like a whore by a man she loves & shoots him to death. She is arrested after her husband, who feels betrayed, squeals & rats on her. (Ginger Rogers played the lead in an older B&W non-musical drama film "Roxie Hart").

The jail Roxie (Zellweger) enters is run by none other than Queen Latifah, the women's warden, who bargains with her prisoners for money to get them attorneys who can have them acquitted. Richard Gere plays Billy, the all sought for attorney, as well as a convincing song & dance man. Gere delivers magnificent musical performance.

The underlying theme of the story is about temporary fame due to a fickle public. Zellweger & Zeta-Jones (Velma) play incarcerated jail jazz age competing drama queens. Richard Gere plays Billy, an expensive lawyer who is sought after by Velma, but it's Roxie who lands him. Gere's convincing 1920's showstopping song dance performance is definitely matched by both Zellweger's & Zeta-Jones'. This is a top-notch musical.

Zellweger's singing & Zeta-Jones' dancing are spectacular & bring Broadway musicals back to the prominent place where they belong. Queen Latifah's supporting role truly turns up the heat! Chicago is nearly embarrassingly rich with oodles of talent~

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