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

DVD Features:

Region 1
2-Disc Keep Case
Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital DTS 5.1 Surround - English
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English
Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo - English, French
Subtitles - Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Deleted Scenes - Deleted Musical Number - "Class" With Optional Commentary By Director Rob Marshall and Screenwriter Bill Condon
Extended Scenes - Extended Musical Performances
Featurette - 1. Exclusive New Material - FROM STAGE TO SCREEN: THE HISTORY OF CHICAGO
2. Rita's Encore
3. Intimate Look At Director Rob Marshall
4. When Liza Became Roxie Hart
5. Academy Award Winning Production Designer John Myhre
6. Academy Award Winning Costume Designer Colleen Atwood

Distributor Notes: This Razzle-Dazzle Edition is the ultimate CHICAGO DVD Collection and features the award-winning motion picture and brand-new bonus material! Winner of six Academy Awards(R) (2002) including Best Picture, and starring Academy Award(R) nominee Renee Zellweger (Best Actress, CHICAGO), Academy Award(R) winner Catherine Zeta-Jones (Best Supporting Actress, CHICAGO), Academy Award(R) nominee Queen Latifah (Best Supporting Actress, CHICAGO), Golden Globe winner Richard Gere (Best Actor, CHICAGO), and Academy Award(R) nominee John C. Reilly (Best Supporting Actor, CHICAGO) -- CHICAGO is a dazzling spectacle of unparalleled entertainment!

Source: Buena Vista Home Entertainment

Renée Zellweger: American Actress, NURSE BETTY (2000)
Catherine Zeta-Jones: Oscar winning Welsh actress, CHICAGO (2002)
Richard Gere: American Actor - An Officer and a Gentleman/Pretty Woman
Queen Latifah: Rapper/Actress
John C. Reilly: American Supporting Actor
Christine Baranski: American Actress
Lucy Liu: Actress
Taye Diggs: Actor
Colm Feore: Actor. BEAUTIFUL DREAMER
Dominic West: Actor
Chita Rivera: American Dancer/Singer

Rob Marshall: 

Martin Richards: Producer

Bill Condon: American Director

John Kander: American Composer - Cabaret

"...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..."
"...It's the raw expenditure of energy and the canniness of the staging that should pull audiences in and keep them rooted..."
"...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..."
"...Zellweger wins our hearts. That's what makes her dangerous. Just like the movie....Dynamite..."
"...Zeta-Jones, all legs and growls, has found her calling card..."
"...Fresh and daring....Queen Latifah and John C. Reilly are the surprise standouts..."
"...[The actors] deliver sizzling performances....This tawdry, hard-as-nails carnival of ghouls generates plenty of fireworks..."
"...[Jones] makes nightclub singer Velma a droll fishnet virtuoso..."