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Chicago

Cast

Ren�e Zellweger, Richard Gere, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Christine Baranski View All

Crew

Bill Condon (Screenplay), Rob Marshall (Director) View All

Release: Dec. 26th, 2002

Runtime: 1 hour, 53 minutes

Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.

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Thief
One could say that Chicago works on two planes: first, the straightforward plot about Roxie's trial and her attempts to gain fame at all costs through it; and second, the musical numbers, which are usually shot on stage, independently of the first plane, and then weaved into the film through editing.

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Gideon58
In the stage musical, the scenes are introduced as vaudeville acts and director Marshall cleverly legitimized this set-up for the film by making the entire film a dream of Roxie's by opening the film with a closeup of Zellweger's lovely blue eye which segues directly onto the stage of the Onyx, the ....

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