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- Femme FataleHotshot LawyerBlind AmbitionDesire for FameRising To StardomUninhibited RivalryCelebrity CultureMedia Satire more...
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- CrimeMusicalHollywood ToneDramaPeriod
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Time/Period:
- 20s20th Century
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- ChicagoPrison
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- Date Night
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- Award WinnerBlockbusterCritically AcclaimedEssentialOscar WinnerModern ClassicPrestigious Awards
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- Satire
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- All Star CastStrong Female Role
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Chicago, 2002
English, Hungarian
USA, Germany
Profile of Chicago
Chicago can be described as biting, cynical, and clever. The plot revolves around a hotshot lawyer, blind ambition, and the desire for fame. Its comic aspect comes from satire. Chicago's main genres are crime, musical, and drama. In terms of style, it features an all-star cast, has a Hollywood tone, and stars a strong female character. In approach, it is not serious and realistic. Chicago is fast paced. It is set, at least in part, in a prison. It is located in Chicago. Chicago takes place in the 1920s. The soundtrack is jazz. The movie has received attention for being a modern classic, an Oscar winner, and essential viewing. Chicago is well suited for a date night. Note that it involves violent content.
Summary of Chicago
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.
Details
| Language: | English, Hungarian |
| Country: | USA, Germany |
| Release date: | 24 January 2003 |
| Runtime: | 113 min |
| Awards: | Academy Awards |
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USA Today
More than any other example in recent memory, Chicago shows how much the element of surprise is missing from today's movies.
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- by: Mike Clark
San Francisco Chronicle
The movie is a total blast, and what a surprise.
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- by: Mick LaSalle
Users Reviews
I almost always watch a movie in it's entiretly before judging it, but I could not sit through this one. I don't understand what the hype was about.
- 30.March.2010
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- by: salpower
- salpower rated this movie
0/10
ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS! From begining to end there wasn't a bad scene, a bad song, a bad dance move. Far superior to the original stage version because they could do so much more! A "must see" for anyone who likes musicals. Far superior to the...
- 21.March.2009
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- by: honestappraisal
- honestappraisal rated this movie
10/10Must See
