<P> Chicago is a 2002 American musical crime comedy - drama film based on the stage - musical of the same name, exploring the themes of celebrity, scandal, and corruption in Chicago during the Jazz Age . The film stars Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta - Jones and Richard Gere . Chicago centers on Velma Kelly (Zeta - Jones) and Roxie Hart (Zellweger), two murderesses who find themselves in jail together awaiting trial in 1920s Chicago . Velma, a vaudevillian, and Roxie, a housewife, fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows . Directed and choreographed by Rob Marshall, and adapted by screenwriter Bill Condon, with music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, Chicago won six Academy Awards in 2003, including Best Picture . The film was critically lauded, and was the first musical to win Best Picture since Oliver! in 1968 . </P> <P> In 1924, Roxie Hart sees star Velma Kelly perform ("Overture / All That Jazz") at a Chicago theater . Wanting stardom for herself, she begins an affair with Fred Casely, who claims to know the manager . After the show, Velma is arrested for killing her husband Charlie and sister Veronica, who were in bed together . </P> <P> A month later, Casely admits to Roxie that he has no showbiz connections and just wanted her body . Enraged, she shoots him dead . She convinces her husband, Amos, to take the blame, telling him she killed a burglar in self - defense . As Amos confesses to the detective, Roxie fantasizes that she is singing a song devoted to her husband ("Funny Honey"). However, when the detective brings up evidence that Roxie and Casely were having an affair, Amos recants; Roxie furiously admits what really happened and is arrested . Ambitious District Attorney Harrison announces he will seek the death penalty . </P> <P> At Cook County Jail, Roxie is sent to Murderess' Row, under the care of the corrupt Matron "Mama" Morton ("When You're Good to Mama"). Roxie meets her idol Velma, but her friendship is rudely rebuffed . She learns the backstories of the other women there, including Velma ("Cell Block Tango"). On Morton's advice, Roxie engages Velma's lawyer, the brilliant Billy Flynn ("All I Care About"). Flynn and Roxie manipulate the press, reinventing Roxie's identity as an originally virtuous woman turned bad by the fast life of the city; she claims she had the affair with Casely because Amos was always working, but repented and dumped him for Amos, and Casely jealously attacked her ("We Both Reached for the Gun"). The press believe the story; praised by the public as a tragic heroine, Roxie becomes an overnight sensation ("Roxie"). Velma, unhappy at losing the public's attention, tries to convince Roxie to join her act, replacing the sister that she murdered ("I Can't Do It Alone"), but Roxie, now the more popular of the two rivals, snubs her just as Velma originally did . </P>

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