Film· 2002· Musical

Chicago

by Rob Marshall

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Chicago

Musical · 1975

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Rob Marshall's film adapts the Kander and Ebb musical about Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly, two murderesses in 1920s Chicago who turn their trials into celebrity. It stages most of the songs as fantasies in Roxie's head, and won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

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Chicago

Two women on Chicago's murderers' row compete for the same lawyer and the same headlines in the 1920s, on the understanding that a big enough scandal is worth an acquittal. Rob Marshall stages every number inside one character's imagination, which solves the problem of why anybody is singing, and it was the first musical to win Best Picture in thirty-four years.