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10/12/2002 Comedy, Crime, Drama 1h 53m
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If you can't be famous, be infamous.

Overview

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.

  1. Rob Marshall

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Renée Zellweger

    Roxie Hart

  2. Catherine Zeta-Jones

    Velma Kelly

  3. Richard Gere

    Billy Flynn

  4. Queen Latifah

    Matron Mama Morton

  5. Ekaterina Chtchelkanova

    Katalin Helinski "Hunyak"

  6. John C. Reilly

    Amos Hart

  7. Christine Baranski

    Mary Sunshine

  8. Lucy Liu

    Kitty Baxter

  9. Taye Diggs

    Bandleader

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-04-04
Hats off to Rob Marshall for taking a cast not necessarily obvious for this story and moulding them into an entertaining trio. The screenplay has been sanitised a bit, and proves really quite thin: "Roxie" (Renée Zellweger) and "Velma" (Catherine Zeta-Jones) are both convicted murderesses who will do just about anything to escape death row. Using their skills as dancers, and their gifts for attracting publicity they must try to engage dodgy lawyer "Billy Flynn" (Richard Gere) to help get them out of the clutches of prison warden "Mama Morton" (a superb Queen Latifah). That's all pretty incide...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$45,000,000.00

Revenue
$306,776,732.00

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