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Genres:
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Comedy /
Crime /
Drama /
Musical /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Rob Marshall
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Actors:
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Bruce Beaton,
Rob Smith,
Sean Wayne Doyle,
Taye Diggs,
Renée Zellweger,
Cliff Saunders,
Catherine Zeta-Jones,
Richard Gere,
Queen Latifah,
John C. Reilly,
Dominic West,
Christine Baranski,
Jayne Eastwood,
Roman Podhora,
Colm Feore
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Duration:
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113 min.
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Rating:
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(7.2/10)158.5
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Plot Summary:
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Murderesses Velma Kelly (a chanteuse and coax who killed her husband and sister after finding them in bed together) and Roxie Hart (who killed her boyfriend when she discovered he wasn't going to make good her a star) find themselves on death row together and warfare for the fame that intent sustain them from the gibbet in 1920s Chicago.
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Really worth watching
Rather than just transport a stage musical to screen, this film uses techniques which would not be possible on stage and as such is really worth watching. Only watch this if you love musicals as you have to suspend your disbelief for the entire film. Both Catherine Zeta-Jones and Renee Zellweger are superb. Richard Gere looks the part but can't really sing that well. DVD extras are good as you see the cast rehearsing and realise that C Z-J can really do those high kicks, it isn't a stand in.
Chicago
Ever since she landed in Hollywood a couple years back, the Welsh-born actress Catherine Zeta-Jones has been playing the part of an old-fashioned star with a vengeance. She made a splash in silly (but lucrative) entertainments like The Mask of Zorro and Entrapment in which she confidently flaunted her lush physicality, only to turn around and flex her acting chops with a supporting role in Steven Soderbergh's Traffic. Few moments in that film were as shocking as the image of the then-hugely pregnant actress seated behind the wheel of a luxury SUV screaming obscenities into a cell phone at her personal contract killer. Here was a star who really acted like one.
In Chicago, Rob Marshall's film version of the 1975 musical first staged by Bob Fosse, Zeta-Jones plays a ...
Chicago
"...[The actors] deal sizzling performances....This tawdry, hard-as-nails carnival of ghouls generates plenty of fireworks..."
Chicago
It took more than a clemency of a century to discuss the 1975 musical Chicago to the separate out, but it was importance the wait to access it right. In this spirited covering adaptation, Renée Zellweger stars as Roxie Hart, the enthusiastic newcomer who dreams of singing and dancing in a man of the conurbation's jazz clubs, and Catherine Zeta-Jones plays Velma, the established performer. After the shootings of a lover and a unbelieving husband, they end up in hoosegow, where the pair deal that the publicity neighbourhood a capital murder wrapper can be a boon to a pursuit in showbusiness. Director Rob Marshall licks the problem of how to photograph a dulcet that was presented as vaudeville on stage — it's closer to that style of short scenes and "turns" t...
Chicago
A clever screenplay that treats the songs as moments of cabrication and thirst fulfillment, and glib guiding make on account of a diverting, cynical account of stunted-lived celebrity and the collusions between the media and its stars; it is dissatisfy down by the singing and
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