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| Category | Dramas DVDs, Playstation Portable Movies, UMD Video Videos, Music Video, Romance, Musical, New York City, Sex, Artists, AIDS (Disease) | | Starring | Rosario Dawson, Taye Diggs, Jesse L. Martin, Anthony Rapp, Tracie Thoms, Idina Menzel | | Director | Chris Columbus | | Director of Photography | Stephen Goldblatt | | Producer | Chris Columbus, Robert De Niro, Michael Barnathan, Jane Rosenthal, Mark Radcliff | | Writer | Jonathan Larson |
Based on Jonathan Larson's bohemian rock musical, this film tells the story of a group of social outcasts struggling to live in the moment yet survive the realities of New York's grity East Village. Rosario Dawson, Taye Diggs, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Jesse L. Martin, Idina Menzel, Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp, Tracie Thoms, and Sarah Silverman star. Extras include audio commentary by director Chris Columbus and selected cast, feature-length documentary, deleted scenes & musical performances, and PSA for Larson's Performing Arts Foundation and the National Marfan Foundation. Director Christopher Columbus (MRS. DOUBTFIRE, HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE) adapts the hit Broadway musical of the same name to the big screen in RENT. A modern spin on the opera LA BOHEME, RENT tells the story of eight friends dealing with life and love in Manhattan's Alphabet City in 1989. Wannabe filmmaker Mark (Anthony Rapp) and singer/songwriter Roger (Adam Pascal) are facing eviction at the hands of their former roommate and current landlord, Benny (Taye Diggs). Benny has married rich, moved out of the neighborhood, and wants to build a state-of-the-art studio where the local tent city stands. Their downstairs neighbor, vivacious Mimi (Rosario Dawson), who strips at a local club to feed her heroin habit, takes a shine to Roger, a self-imposed recluse and former junkie whose last girlfriend died of AIDS. Their friend, Collins (Jesse L. Martin), returns to town and quickly falls for Angel (Wilson Jermaine Heredia), a glamorous, gracious, HIV positive transvestite. Finally, there is Maureen (Idina Menzel), a spitfire and performance artist who is planning a protest against Benny's plans and has dumped Mark for cerebral Joanne (Tracie Thoms), a lawyer.
Over the course of a year, the friends face poverty, drug addiction, break-ups, reconciliations, eviction, and AIDS. Despite these challenges, they find support, hope, and acceptance in each other, all the while embracing the bohemian lifestyle that was so much a part of the Lower East Side. Newcomers Dawson and Thoms mix seamlessly with the original cast members, and Columbus introduces some interesting staging locations. With a concept, music, and lyrics by the late Jonathan Larson, RENT is an exuberant rock-&-roll musical with the underlying message that love can prevail despite all odds and that, ultimately, there really is no day but today.
Theatrical Release: November 23, 2005
Rent Reviews: "[The director] leaves the musical's tender heart intact."
-- Barry Walters, Rolling Stone "[T]here's a relentless sincerity to RENT that's ultimately disarming....When the film succeeds, it does so because it manages to mine the emotional seams of painful premature death..."
-- Kevin Maher, Sight and Sound "[A] joyful surprise....[The director] has opened up the show, turning it into a far more varied and flowing entertainment." -- Grade: A-
-- Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly "[The performers] bring the ardent conviction of young strivers to the material, which is just what it needs."
-- A. O. Scott, New York Times Rent | List Price | $14.94 (You save $3.69) | | Studio | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment | | Orig Year | 2005 | | All Time Sales Rank |  87831  | | CD Universe Part number | 7019648 | | Catalog number | 12486 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Feb 21, 2006 | | Rating | PG-13 (MPAA) | | Running Time | 135 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen; Dubbed; Subtitled | | Movie Details | Color; Widescreen; Dubbed; Subtitled |
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Rent is surprisingly fabulous. The characters are fun to watch. An amazing musical.
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pretty good
Every one in my family hates RENT except for me. It's really cool and nice but it's more of a tenage-adult movie but it's good.
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I really don't like musical's but when i saw Sister act 2,I decided to watch alot of musical's but when i saw RENT, i thought i could hold on for musical's for a while. It wasn't as good as i expected it would be. Too much singing for me.
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 WICKED AWSOME!!
I absolutely love this movie! My friends and I can't get the soundtrack out of our heads!! Although my parents dont like it much and didn't want me to see it, I saw it 3 times...lol! But seriously this movie is soooo WICKED AWSOME!
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LOVED IT!!!
I totally loved it, and I bought 2 of the songs already!(just saw it about a week ago) I was about to cry, it was so touching!
WATCH IT OR LIVE YOUR SHELTERED LIFE IN DEPRIVATION!
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