Chicago
Movie • 2002 • Comedy
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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.
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The main character is also slapped by her boyfriend (who she is having an affair with).
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Roxie repeatedly lies to her husband, including a lie about her being pregnant.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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No, but there are a lot of references to drinking and alcohol. Also, the main character is shown drunk near the beginning.
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The "all that jazz" number references drug use
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00.13 mentions the idea very quickly, but not using r word
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Is rape mentioned?
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Near the beginning, a character expresses fear that his wife could have been violated by a burglar
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Is someone drugged?
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A woman mentions poisoning her husband with arsenic, but it isn't shown.
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Bodily Harm
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The opening eye close-up with a "C" forming around the cornea may unsettle.
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Is there a hanging?
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It's a whole scene. Starts around 1hour 16 mins, lasts just under 2 minutes.
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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Roxie cuts her hair in one scene, but it's kinda minor
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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One of the characters is sentenced to hang which is not shown on screen but you do see her drop out of frame
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Is someone stabbed?
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"He ran into my knife TEN times"
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Roxie pretends to faint at several points.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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She doesn't die from falling exactly, she gets hanged
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A character pretends to faint on several occasions.
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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A hot tempered murderess kicks a reporter in his no-no spot
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Children
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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There is on-screen murder and a lot of discussion about it, as well as a character executed by hanging.
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Disability
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Family
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The character that Roxy murders is later revealed to have had a wife and kids.
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Does a family member die?
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I mean technically velma's sister dies, but she's the one who kills her. You don't see her die either.
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Does someone cheat?
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Adultery is a major theme.
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Fear
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Are there clowns?
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during mr. cellophane, john c reilly’s character wears clown-ish/clown inspired makeup for part of the number
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Are there ghosts?
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Kind of, one song has murderesses dancing with their victims, but it is an imagine spot.
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Are there mannequins?
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No, but during a musical number a main character moves as if she were a puppet on strings.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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Is there incarceration?
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Most of the film takes place in a woman's prison.
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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In Cell Block Tango a woman lists the names of people her husband cheated on her with, one of the names being a traditionally male name.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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not really, just a scene where Roxie is wheeled out of a hospital after being "examined" and cleared as pregnant
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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No but minor body shaming lines
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Roxie could potentially be read as mentally ill, but this is not stated in the film.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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There are flashbacks from cameras
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Is there shakey cam?
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There is a lot of shakey camera after the very last performance of the movie, when Roxie and Velma are being photographed.
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Paranoia
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Roxy spies on a conversation between Velma and Mama.
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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Sort of. There are musical numbers where characters are singing directly to an audience, which are a stand-in for the viewer.
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Pregnancy
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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There is a lot of discussion about a (fake) unborn child, but no babies are shown.
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Roxie pretends to be pregnant to get more media attention, but is also used to keep her from getting excecuted.
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Prejudice
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Roxie tells Velma to lay off the caramels in reference to her figure
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Are there homophobic slurs?
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The word "queer" is used in a song but it's more likely meant as the old-timey meaning of "strange".
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This website doesn't have a category for theatre, but it should be mentioned that in most productions of the stage musical - but NOT the 2002 movie - the reporter Mary Sunshine is played by a man in drag. It's revealed during the trial scene that she's "really" a man (she removes her wig and sings in a lower register). Nobody ridicules her, she's treated as a woman when presenting as a woman and vice versa, so it probably isn't misgendering. However the reveal itself is presented as a joke, which may be upsetting for viewers who have triggers around misgendering.
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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DTDD doesn't have a "theatre" category, but it's worth mentioning that in most stage productions of the musical, the reporter Mary Sunshine is played by a man in drag. This is revealed during the trial scene and is played for laughs. This does NOT apply to the 2002 movie version, where she is played by a woman.
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Offscreen and before the film starts. It's briefly mentioned in "Cell Block Tango" that one of the inmates murdered her boyfriend because he was cheating on her with several women and a man.
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Is there hate speech?
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Roxie calls Billy Flynn a "greasy m*ck Lawyer" The original production also has Roxie call Velma (played by Chita Rivera) a "Sp*ck"
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Religious
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It's briefly stated that Roxie went to a convent. (Although this is untrue)
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If sensitive to this, Roxy says Fred is her brother while drunk and poorly trying to cover up her affair from her neighbour
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Is there sexual content?
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One of the sexiest musicals ever made. Plenty of risque dance routines and frank discussion of sex/innuendoes
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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A lot of the dancing and costumes are sexually provocative. Worth mentioning that in a lot of cases the women are portrayed as in control of their sexuality and using it to their advantage to manipulate men.
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Spoiler
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Does it have a sad ending?
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In the sense that the bad guys win, and we the audience are to blame.
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Violence
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A small amount of blood is shown
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Is there gun violence?
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The movie begins with a character being shot and there's a whole song about reaching for the gun which is used as a key piece of evidence for the main characters court case
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