Kander and Ebb's Roaring»20s retro - chic stage musical, adapted by Bill Condon, centres on antagonistic murderesses Roxie Hart (Zellweger) and Velma Kelly (Zeta - Jones), and
shyster attorney Billy Flynn (Gere), to whom each turns hoping to regain liberty.
We also meet Mick's opposing
attorney (Josh Lucas); a former client he plea - bargained into prison (Michael Pena); a cop (Bryan Cranston) who considers him a
shyster and, most valuable, Mick's private investigator (William H. Macy).