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Year: 2002
Director: Rob Marshall
Writers: Bill Condon (screenplay), Fred Ebb (book from the musical Chicago), Bob Fosse (book from the musical Chicago), Maurine Dallas Watkins (original play)
Cast:
Catherine Zeta-Jones.... Velma Kelly
Renée Zellweger.... Roxie Hart
Richard Gere.... Billy Flynn
John C Reilly.... Amos Hart
Queen Latifah.... Matron 'Mama' Morton
Dominic West.... Fred Casely
Lucy Liu.... Go-To-Hell Kitty
Mya.... Mona
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The enduring Broadway play Chicago has moved from the stage to the screen with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Richard Gere heading up an ensemble cast. The film follows the fortunes of two murderesses, Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart, as they await trial amidst a frenzy of media attention.
With its interplay of celebrity and the law, the script makes for a biting satire as both women try to play the media to their advantage. Professional entertainer Velma (Zeta-Jones) dominates the headlines until Roxie starts to muscle in with her own newfound fame. The courtroom theatrics of their lawyer, played by Gere, also takes a swipe at a judicial system that has one standard for ordinary folk and another for celebrities.
It was perhaps only a matter of time before the musical became a Hollywood production, given the years of success it has enjoyed on the stages of both New York and London. It was originally penned in the 1920s by Chicago Tribune reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins, who based it on collected stories from the city's criminal courts. In 1975 renowned choreographer Bob Fosse turned it into a musical, and now Rob Marshall has brought it to the screen. Ironically, Watkins spent the final years of her life struggling to prevent any further productions of this, her most popular work.
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