Chicago
Movie • 2002 • Comedy
ReportMurderesses 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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Microsoft_Nerd
The main character is also slapped by her boyfriend (who she is having an affair with).
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Roxie repeatedly lies to her husband, including a lie about her being pregnant.
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Addiction
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The "all that jazz" number references drug use
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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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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Assault
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Is someone drugged?
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Weatherfish
A woman mentions poisoning her husband with arsenic, but it isn't shown.
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Is rape mentioned?
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Weatherfish
Near the beginning, a character expresses fear that his wife could have been violated by a burglar
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00.13 mentions the idea very quickly, but not using r word
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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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CloudyMindCloudyDays
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 there a hanging?
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CloudyMindCloudyDays
One of the characters is sentenced to death and we see her drop out of frame but that's all
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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movieman
A hot tempered murderess kicks a reporter in his no-no spot
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Does someone become unconscious?
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vargtass
A character pretends to faint on several occasions.
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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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Is there eye mutilation?
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movieman
The opening eye close-up with a "C" forming around the cornea may unsettle.
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Is someone stabbed?
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nowwuuh
"He ran into my knife TEN times"
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Children
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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Does someone die?
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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
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 a parent die?
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Weatherfish
The character that Roxy murders is later revealed to have had a wife and kids.
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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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movieman
Kind of, one song has murderesses dancing with their victims, but it is an imagine spot.
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Are there clowns?
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Lillithbaby
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 mannequins?
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Weatherfish
No, but during a musical number a main character moves as if she were a puppet on strings.
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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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vargtass
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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movieman
not really, just a scene where Roxie is wheeled out of a hospital after being "examined" and cleared as pregnant
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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BlueRhapsody
Roxie could potentially be read as mentally ill, but this is not stated in the film.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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No but minor body shaming lines
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Is there shakey cam?
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vargtass
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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Are there flashing lights or images?
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There are flashbacks from cameras
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Paranoia
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Weatherfish
Roxy spies on a conversation between Velma and Mama.
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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Weatherfish
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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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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movieman
Roxie pretends to be pregnant to get more media attention, but is also used to keep her from getting excecuted.
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Are there homophobic slurs?
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Weatherfish
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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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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TFMD
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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TFMD
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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Does an LGBT person die?
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Bengelix
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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Are there fat jokes?
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Roxie tells Velma to lay off the caramels in reference to her figure
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Is there hate speech?
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movieman
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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It's briefly stated that Roxie went to a convent. (Although this is untrue)
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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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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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WesAndersonRocksMySocks
One of the sexiest musicals ever made. Plenty of risque dance routines and frank discussion of sex/innuendoes
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Does it have a sad ending?
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movieman
In the sense that the bad guys win, and we the audience are to blame.
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Is there blood/gore?
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Anonymous
A small amount of blood is shown
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Is there gun violence?
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CloudyMindCloudyDays
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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