Directed by: Rob Marshall
Starring: Richard Gere, John C. Reilly, Queen Latifah, Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Lucy Liu, Taye Diggs
Corrected entry: The film takes place in the 1920's, but the song "Nowadays" includes the lines "You can even marry Harry/And mess around with Ike", an allusion to Presidents Truman (1945-53) and Eisenhower (1953-61).
Correction: There is no evidence that they are referring to Truman and Eisenhower. They are just using the names Harry and Ike as generic names for men.
Correction: It could be a reference to Harry Houdini and Ukelele "Ike" Edwards, both 1920s icons.
Factual error: In the scene where Roxie is placed in the "paddy wagon" to be taken to Cook County Jail, the prosecutor refers to himself as District Attorney Harrison. However, the court system in Illinois doesn't have district attorneys; rather, they have state's attorneys. The original play by Maureen Watkins correctly calls him a state's attorney.
Velma Kelly: Well, you wanted my advice, right? Whatever it is, don't forget Billy Flinn's number-one client is Billy Flynn.
Trivia: Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Richard Gere all did their own dancing and singing.
Question: How much time supposedly elapses between Roxie's arrest and her being acquitted of the murder charge? I have a hard time with the "fake pregnancy" element. We know Roxie was faking it, but if at least a few months had passed between her arrest and her announcement - much less between her trial and arrest - she was so thin that even a pregnancy of a few months (or lack thereof) would be noticeable to anyone who looked at her.
Chosen answer: Pregnancy or lack therof would have been noticeable you think, but I am a size 8(aust) and gave birth 8 weeks early, still wearing size 10 clothes - unless I told people I was 7 months pregant they did not know.
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Correction: This can also be a nod to the audience, most of whom would remember Truman and Eisenhower. The song is about how things are going to change, making a comment about "in 50 years," which would put it in the 70s which is when Chicago was first mounted.