If you can't be famous, be infamous.
Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.
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Cool, nostalgic, effortless and ironic.
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“Does Catherine Zeta-Jones steal Chicago from Renée Zellweger?”
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“Is the nostalgia doing the heavy lifting?”
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Apr 20227/10
Hats off to Rob Marshall for taking a cast not necessarily obvious for this story and moulding them into an entertaining trio. The screenplay has been sanitised a bit, and proves really quite thin: "Roxie" (Renée Zellweger) and "Velma" (Catherine Zeta-Jones) are both convicted murderesses who will do just about anything to escape death row. Using their skills as dancers, and their gifts for attracting publicity they must try to engage dodgy lawyer "Billy Flynn" (Richard Gere) to help get them out of the clutches of prison warden "Mama Morton" (a superb Queen Latifah). That's all pretty incidental to the stunning look of this film. At times a little confusing as the costumes seems to straddle timelines from the 1920s to things one might see in "Saturday Night Fever", but it is all about the style; and both principals have it in spades. Zeta-Jones, especially, has a classy sexiness about her performance; Zellweger more of an innocence, and Gere is the perfect man for the job proving he, too, can get his (and our) toes tapping. The original Fosse play remains the bedrock for this and the Kander and Ebb songs performed strongly with "All That Jazz"; "Funny Honey" and "Razzle Dazzle" al
Read the whole review on TMDB - CinemaSerfon TMDB · Mar 20227/10
Hats off to Rob Marshall for taking a cast not necessarily obvious for this story and moulding them into an entertaining trio. The screenplay has been sanitised a bit, and proves really quite thin: "Roxie" (Renée Zellweger) and "Velma" (Catherine Zeta-Jones) are both convicted murderesses who will do just about anything to escape death row. Using their skills as dancers, and their gifts for attracting publicity they must try to engage dodgy lawyer "Billy Flynn" (Richard Gere) to help get them out of the clutches of prison warden "Mama Morton" (a superb Queen Latifah). That's all pretty incidental to the stunning look of this film. At times a little confusing as the costumes seems to straddle timelines from the 1920s to things one might see in "Saturday Night Fever", but it is all about the style; and both principals have it in spades. Zeta-Jones, especially, has a classy sexiness about her performance; Zellweger more of an innocence, and Gere is the perfect man for the job proving he, too, can get his (and our) toes tapping. The original Fosse play remains the bedrock for this and the Kander and Ebb songs performed strongly with "All That Jazz"; Funny Honey" and "Razzle Dazzle" all
Read the whole review on TMDB - Zoro DPieceon TMDB · Aug 20189/10
SPOILERS AHEAD! From Rob Marshall ("Into the Woods") and Bill Condon ("Dreamgirls") comes this charming satirical stab on celebrity criminals. Based on the 1975 stage play and starring Renee Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Richard Gere. Set in the jazz age of Chicago, Illinois. "Chicago" tells the story of two women on murderess row who hope that fame and fortune will keep them out of the gallows. Velma Kelly (Zeta-Jones) is a vaudevillian performer who plugs her sister and husband right before a performance. Roxie Hart (Zellweger) is watching the performance while idolizeing Velma and hopes one day to be on the stage just like her. Convinced that with Fred Casely's (Dominic West) help she will get what she wants. But, when Casely turns out to be an abusive lying womanizer Roxie is angered and betrayed. Causing her to kill him as revenge, she tries to convince her husband Amos (John C. Reilly) to take the blame. However, his story does not phase the Harrison (Colm Feore) and Roxie is arrested and learns that she could face the death penalty. Roxie later meets the corrupt but nurturing jail matron Mama Morton (Queen Latifah), who gives her some helpful advice on how to win the c
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Cast
- Renée ZellwegerRoxie Hart
- Catherine Zeta-JonesVelma Kelly
- Richard GereBilly Flynn
- Queen LatifahMatron Mama Morton
- John C. ReillyAmos Hart
- Colm FeoreHarrison
- Dominic WestFred Casely
- Christine BaranskiMary Sunshine
- Ekaterina ChtchelkanovaKatalin Helinski "Hunyak"
- Lucy LiuKitty Baxter
Crew
- Rob MarshallDirector
- Bill CondonScreenplay
- Dion BeebeDirector of Photography
- Danny ElfmanOriginal Music Composer
- John KanderOriginal Music Composer
- Martin WalshEditor
- Martin RichardsProducer
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