Viola Davis, Gillian Flynn and Steve McQueen enter Chicago underworld with 'Widows'
CHICAGO - Opening next week, the heist thriller "Widows" takes place in Chicago, where it was filmed. But you know what? You never get a shot of the Bean, the Millennium Park sculpture formally known as Cloud Gate. You don't see any of the usual tourist destinations.
Rather, "Widows" is set against vivid corners of Hyde Park, Garfield Park, Englewood and Lawndale, as well as shadowy interiors inhabited by members of the corrupt ruling class. At one point Colin Farrell, who plays the weaselly heir to papa Robert Duvall's political fiefdom, has a tense drink with some smiling adversaries - one of whom, Farrell notes, needs money because he has a couple of kids enrolled at the Latin School. The conversation in question, full of fast,
