| Everyone
loves a legend, but in Chicago, there’s only room for one. Velma
Kelley (CATHERINE ZETA-JONES) burns in the spotlight as a nightclub
sensation. When she shoots her philandering husband, she lands on
Chicago’s famed murderess row, retains Chicago’s slickest
lawyer, Billy Flynn (RICHARD GERE), and is the center of the town’s
most notorious murder case, only increasing her celebrity.
Roxie
Hart (RENÉE ZELLWEGER), seduced by the city’s promise
of style and adventure, dreams of singing and dancing her way to
stardom. When Roxie’s abusive lover tries to walk out on her,
she too ends up in prison. Billy recognizes a made-for-tabloids
story, and postpones Velma’s court date to take on Roxie’s
case. Infamy is Roxie’s ticket to stardom. Billy turns her
crime of passion into celebrity headlines, and in this town, where
murder is a form of entertainment, she becomes a bona fide star
– much to Velma’s chagrin.
As
Roxie fashions herself as America’s sweetheart, Velma has more
than a few surprises in store, and the two women stop at nothing
to outdo each other in their obsessive pursuit of fame and celebrity.
A new
interpretation that takes the award-winning Broadway show into fresh
and expansive cinematic realms, CHICAGO shifts adroitly from the
reality of intrigue, rivalry and betrayal to spectacular fantasies
of music and dance, offering tongue-in-cheek commentary on the cult
of celebrity and the scandalous lengths to which people will go
to attain it.
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