| Chicago Starring: Renee Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Christine Baranski, Queen Latifah, Taye Diggs Rated: PG-13 Ships: Check Inventory Run Time: 113 min. Released: 2003, BUE Director: Rob Marshall Stock: 117041D1 Format: DVD Region#1 Synopsis: Everyone loves a legend, but in Chicago, there�s only room for one. Velma Kelley 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, and is the center of the town�s most notorious murder case only increasing her celebrity. Roxie Hart, 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 ore than a few surprises in stor, 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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