Description A box set featuring 'Chicago' the story of Velma Kelly, a Vaudeville star, who gains infamy after she shoots her husband dead in a cold blooded attack. Velma finds herself in prison with Roxie Hart, a chorus dancer who is also accused of murder and the two would be stars fight it out to see who can win greater fame through newspaper headlines... 'The Hours' an adaptation of the novel by Michael Cunningham, this is the story of three women living in different time periods of the Twentieth Century all linked by a work of literature. In 1923 Virginia Woolf starts to write her novel 'Mrs Dalloway' whilst struggling to cope with depression and mental illness. In 1951 Laura Brown, a dissatisfied housewife contemplates her own life after reading 'Mrs Dalloway'. In 2000 editor, Clarissa Vaughan, struggles to look after her ex-lover, Richard Brown, who is losing his battle with Aids. Richard nicknames her 'Mrs Dalloway' and 'Frida' Based on the biography by Hayden Herrera, this is the story of the life of the Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo. Along with her husband, Diego Rivera, she took the art world by storm and her private life was no less colourful...
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