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.
Theatrical release: December 27, 2002
Blu-ray Features:
Blue BD Case
Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English, French
Dolby Digital 2.0 Uncompressed Stereo - Spanish
Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo - English
Subtitles - English (SDH), French, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary - Rob Marshall - Director; Bill Condon - Screenwriter
Deleted Scene
Featurette - 1. Behind-The-Scenes Special
2. FROM STAGE TO SCREEN: THE HISTORY OF CHICAGO
3. Musical Performances
4. An Intimate Look At Rob Marshall - Director
5. When Liza Became Roxie Hart
Interactive Features:
Scene Selection: Instant Access To Select Movie Scenes That Showcase The Ultimate In High Definition Picture And Sound
Source Writer
Bob Fosse: Director/Choreog./Dancer
Source Writer
Fred Ebb: American Composer - Cabaret
Source Writer
Maurine Watkins: Screenwriter, 1930s
Director of Photography
Dion Beebe: DOP
Review 1:
"...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..."
Source: Los Angeles Times
p.C8 12/27/2002
Review 2:
"...It's the raw expenditure of energy and the canniness of the staging that should pull audiences in and keep them rooted..."
Source: New York Times
p.E1 12/27/2002
Review 3:
"...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..."
Source: USA Today
p.7D 12/27/2002
Review 4:
"...Zellweger wins our hearts. That's what makes her dangerous. Just like the movie....Dynamite..."
Source: Rolling Stone
p.76 01/23/2003
Review 5:
"...Zeta-Jones, all legs and growls, has found her calling card..."
Source: Film Comment
p.73 01/01/2003
Review 6:
"...Fresh and daring....Queen Latifah and John C. Reilly are the surprise standouts..."
Source: Box Office
p.59 03/01/2003
Review 7:
"...[The actors] deliver sizzling performances....This tawdry, hard-as-nails carnival of ghouls generates plenty of fireworks..."
Source: Movieline's Hollywood Life
p.62 02/01/2003
Review 8:
"...[Jones] makes nightclub singer Velma a droll fishnet virtuoso..."
Source: Sight and Sound
p.41-2 02/01/2003
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