Chicago (Full Screen Edition)
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Actor: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Cliff Saunders (II), Dominic West, Renée Zellweger, Taye DiggsBrand: Chicago
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-08-19
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Miramax
Product features:
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Movie Reviews of Chicago (Full Screen Edition)
Movie Review: Hands down-the best movie to grace the screen this year!
Summary: 5 Stars
I walked into "Chicago" not knowing a thing about it. I am a fan of musicals but that certainly does NOT mean they can't be ruined in a movie. Having said that..
Renee Zellweger was outstanding in this movie and it is a CRIME that she did not recieve the Oscar! She dances, sings and acts like a pro to the point that you believe she IS Roxie Hart. Catherine Zeta-Jones who DID win an Oscar(she deserved it the most), was sexy and humorous in the movie and the fact that she can sing and dance like a broadyway actress helps as well! Richard Gene is fantastic as a silver-tounged lawyer and the supporting cast includes a wheeling and dealing Queen Latifah, a cellophane-like man: John C. Reily and a "Sob Sister" role for Christine Baranski.
Set in the jazzy 1920's, the story opens with "All that Jazz" proving that it revolves around Roxie Hart(Zellwegger) who wants more than anything to be a vaudville star.When the man she is cheating on her husband with walks out on her with the words "You're a two-bit talent with skinny legs-face it Roxie, you ain't never gonna have an act!", Zellweger's character shoots him dead. When her "Funny Honey" Amos arrives home, he is prepared to take the blame-'till he discovers what Fred Casley and his Roxie were doing every night. Roxie is shipped off to jail, were famous vaudville legend Velma Kelly (Zeta-Jones) is imprisoned for the same crime. Matron "Mama" Morton promises Roxie to help her for a price in "When Your Good to Mama". Enter Billy Flynn the best criminal lawyer in all of Chicago, "All I Care About". One of his best lines is: "I don't mean to toot my own horn but if Jesus Christ had lived in Chicago and had $5000, things would have turned out differently." Flynn is also Velma's lawyer and Velma isn't to happy about him taking Roxie's case. Within a week ROXIE ROCKS CHICAGO is the headline and everyone, including reporter Mary Sunshine (Baranski) believes that Roxie and Casley "both reached for the gun" The name on everyone's lips is "Roxie". Velma tries to gain Roxies trust by offering to do an act with her in "I can't do it alone". But the now extremely arrogant Roxie says no. Roxie announces her pregnancy but Amos realises that he isn't the father! He also realises how pathetic and sad his life is in "Mister Cellophane." Roxie turns on the old "Razzle Dazzle" during her trial-and is found absolutally NOT GUILTY! However-no one wants to take her picture, but after all-that's Chicago! Then out of the blue-something amazing happens: Velma and Roxie are in a show TOGETHER and have one back all that was lost!
This movie will appeal to everyone in some way. The camerawork is unique and the setting really looks like the 1920s. The dancing is the best-the singing is great-the script couldn't be better-GO SEE IT. END OF STORY!
Summary of Chicago (Full Screen Edition)
Winner of six Academy Awards(R) (2003) including Best Picture, and starring Academy Award nominee (Best Actress, CHICAGO) and Golden Globe winner (Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy, CHICAGO) Renée Zellweger (BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY), Academy Award winner (Best Supporting Actress, CHICAGO) Catherine Zeta-Jones (TRAFFIC), Academy Award nominee (Best Supporting Actress, CHICAGO) Queen Latifah (BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE), Golden Globe winner (Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, CHICAGO) Richard Gere (UNFAITHFUL), and Academy Award nominee (Best Supporting Actor, CHICAGO) John C. Reilly (GANGS OF NEW YORK) -- CHICAGO is a dazzling spectacle cheered by audiences and critics alike! At a time when crimes of passion result in celebrity headlines, nightclub sensation Velma Kelly (Zeta-Jones) and spotlight-seeking Roxie Hart (Zellweger) both find themselves sharing space on Chicago's famed Murderess Row! They also share Billy Flynn (Gere), the town's slickest lawyer with a talent for turning notorious defendants into local legends. But in Chicago, there's only room for one legend! Also starring Lucy Liu (CHARLIE'S ANGELS).Bob Fosse's sexy cynicism still shines in Chicago, a faithful movie adaptation of the choreographer-director's 1975 Broadway musical. Of course the story, all about merry murderesses and tabloid fame, is set in the Roaring '20s, but Chicago reeks of '70s disenchantment--this isn't just Fosse's material, it's his attitude, too. That's probably why the movie's breathless observations on fleeting fame and fickle public taste already seem dated. However, Renée Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones are beautifully matched as Jazz Age vixens, and Richard Gere gleefully sheds his customary cool to belt out a showstopper. (Yes, they all do their own singing and dancing.) Whatever qualms musical purists may have about director Rob Marshall's cut-cut-cut style, the film's sheer exuberance is intoxicating. Given the scarcity of big-screen musicals in the last 25 years, that's a cause for singing, dancing, cheering. And all that jazz. --Robert Horton
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