Genre: Comedy / Crime / Drama / Musical Director(s): Rob Marshall Release Date: 01 January 2002 Movie rating: 7.2

Have you ever wondered how it's like when you became famous by the murder you commit? Here comes a movie that is based on both play by Maurine Dallas Watkins and musical book done by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse. It was adapted into a movie Bill Condon and directed by amazing Rob Marshall. The story is located in Chicago in 1920s. It starts off as a gorgeous cabaret dancer Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta-Jones) comes to her show without her sister and does the whole act alone. It is found only later that she had murdered her sister as well as her husband and she gets a world famous trial. Also, on the night of the murder, young Roxie Hart (Renée Zellweger) and fake star manager were in the club. Couple of years after that event, after she was bored of waiting on becoming a star, Roxie kills her lover, and convinces her husband to take the blame. In the court, she gets one of the greatest lawyers, Billy Flynn (Richard Gere), who is also one of the most expensive ones, to get her out, but at what cost? Throughout the whole movie, as Roxie gets through it all, there are songs that describe her emotions, situations and events, history of various female prisoners in the cells, as well as the emotions of her husband after the trial. One of the most famous numbers is certainly "Prison Tango", which tells the stories of each female prisoner in there.

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