Chicago (Diamond Edition) (Blu-ray + DVD) PG-13
If you can't be famous, be infamous.
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 53 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 11, 2014
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Richard Gere, Renée Zellweger & Catherine Zeta-Jones | |
Performer: | Queen Latifah, John C. Reilly, Christine Baranski, Lucy Liu, Taye Diggs, Colm Feore, Dominic West & Chita Rivera | |
Directed by | Rob Marshall | |
Screenwriting by | Bill Condon | |
Composition by | John Kander | |
Produced by | Martin Richards | |
Director of Photography: | Dion Beebe |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 2002 -
Best Picture: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 2002 -
Best Supporting Actress: Catherine Zeta-Jones
Entertainment Reviews:
...Zeta-Jones, all legs and growls, has found her calling card...
Film Comment
...CHICAGO shows how much the element of surprise is missing from today's movies....It's part of the basic Zeta-Jones bio that she can really sing, and, wow, can she...
USA Today
As sentimental as a plywood casket, Chicago has satirical bite and a mean wit that somehow never obscures its characters' unlikely likability.
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AV Club
Marshall doesn't doggedly follow Fosse. He uses scenes from many other musicals. Chicago is, among other things, a collection of fan's notes by a boy crazy about the form.
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The New York Review of Books
In effect it is filmed theatre, but this brings its own compensations: the more fake Chicago looks, the more real it seems to get.
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Times (UK)
What makes this more than a film of a great stage show is the way that the action spills seamlessly from the stage sets into real life. Magic.
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Times (UK)
...Chicago is another spectacular spectacular filled with enough razzamattazz, razzle dazzle, all that jazz and then some, all guaranteed to place Hollywood back at the top of the heap as king of the movie musical.
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Behind The Lens
Product Description:
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.
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.