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.
Direction
Marshall stages numbers as Roxie's fantasies—reality never gets a song.
Editing
Rapid-fire cuts that make you forget half these people die.
Costume
Zeta-Jones's black sequins could cut glass. Literally.
Director
Rob Marshall
Renée Zellweger
Roxie Hart
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Velma Kelly
Richard Gere
Billy Flynn
Queen Latifah
Matron Mama Morton
Ekaterina Chtchelkanova
Katalin Helinski "Hunyak"
John C. Reilly
Amos Hart
Christine Baranski
Mary Sunshine
Lucy Liu
Kitty Baxter
Taye Diggs
Bandleader
Colm Feore
Harrison
Dominic West
Fred Casely
Mya
Mona
Deidre Goodwin
June
Denise Faye
Annie
Susan Misner
Liz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Catherine Zeta-Jones was actually pregnant during filming; her tight costumes were strategically designed to hide it. The baby bump became Hollywood's best-kept secret in sequins.
The film's Oscar sweep revived the movie musical after a decade of death, but its bitter cynicism about fame feels more prescient now in the Instagram era than in 2002.
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