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Chicago - Film
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Chicago is a 2002 musical film released by Miramax Films.
First released in limited cities on June 27, 2002, Chicago opened in wide release on January 24, 2003. An adaptation of the satirical stage musical Chicago, the film explores the themes of celebrity and scandal in Jazz age Chicago. Directed and choreographed by Rob Marshall, and adapted for film by screenwriter Bill Condon, Chicago won six Academy Awards in 2003, including Best Picture. The film was the first musical film to win the Best Picture Oscar since Oliver! (1968).
Chicago centers around Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart, two murderesses who find themselves on death row together in 1920s Chicago. Velma, a professional vaudevillian, and Roxie, a housewife with aspirations of being a star, fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows. The film stars Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renée Zellweger, and Richard Gere, also featuring Queen Latifah, John C. Reilly, Christine Baranski, Lucy Liu, Taye Diggs, Colm Feore, and Mýa.
Plot
Chicago, mid 1920s. Naïve Roxie Hart (Renée Zellweger) visits a nightclub where star Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta-Jones) performs, in hopes that her (Roxie's) boyfriend Fred Casely will get her a gig as a vaudeville star. Velma is arrested after the show for murdering her adulterous husband as he slept with her sister Veronica. After Roxie realizes that Fred won't help her break into showbusiness, she kills him in a fit of rage and tries to make her simple-minded husband Amos (John C. Reilly) take the fall. However, the police see through her ruse and Roxie is arrested and sent to Cook County Jail.
Once Roxie arrives and is booked, she is sent to Murderess' Row to await trial, under the care of the corrupt Matron "Mama" Morton (Queen Latifah), who supplies her girls with cigarettes and other materials if she's paid well enough. Roxie meets Velma in jail as the woman in charge, and learns the stories behind the other women in Murderess' Row. Roxie decides that she wants Velma's lawyer Billy Flynn (Richard Gere) to get her off, and convinces her husband to talk to him. Billy decides to take Roxie's case and get her off by making her a star.
Flynn and Roxie manipulate the press at a press conference, reinventing Roxie's identity to make Chicago fall in love with her. Roxie becomes the new infamous celebrity of the Cook County Jail, much to Velma's horror and Mama's delight. Velma, desperate to get back into the limelight, tries to persuade Roxie into opening a vaudeville act with her once they get out of jail. Roxie haughtily refuses and mocks Velma. Roxie and Velma become locked in a rivalry to outdo each other in stardom. The tables are turned on both ladies, however, when a new killer named Kitty (Lucy Liu) — a wealthy woman who killed her husband and both of his mistresses — enters the scene.
Roxie manages to steal back attention by claiming to be pregnant, which is falsely confirmed by a doctor who she seduced, much to Amos' delight; however, nobody notices that he even exists. Roxie's trial date approaches, and she and Billy begin to plan their strategy to find her innocent of murder using her star power and sympathy vote. Her trial proceeds and becomes a media spectacle, fed off the sensationalist reports of radio personality Mary Sunshine (Christine Baranski). The trial goes Roxie's way, until Velma shows up with Roxie's diary and, in exchange for amnesty, reads incriminating entries that Roxie claims to never have written. Using some quick talking, Billy manages to get Roxie off the hook and she is proclaimed innocent. However, Roxie's publicity is short lived: as soon as the trial concludes, the public's attention turns quickly to a new murderess. Roxie leaves the courthouse after discovering that Billy wrote the false diary entries, and sent the journal to Velma to get Miss Kelly off death row. Roxie reveals to Amos she faked her pregnancy for the fame.
With nothing left, Roxie once more sets off to find a stage career, with little success. But she is soon approached by Velma, who is willing to revive a two person act with Roxie. Roxie refuses at first, because of the hatred that they share for each other, but relents. The two murderesses, no longer facing jail time, finally become the enormous successes they have been longing to be.
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Cast
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Renée Zellweger as Roxie Hart
Catherine Zeta-Jones as Velma Kelly
Richard Gere as Billy Flynn
John C. Reilly as Amos Hart
Queen Latifah as Matron Mama Morton
Taye Diggs as Band Leader
Dominic West as Fred Casely
Jayne Eastwood as Mrs. Borusewicz
Colm Feore as Harrison
Christine Baranski as Mary Sunshine
Mýa as Mona
Lucy Liu as Kitty Baxter
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