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Release Date
• USA: Nov 25, 2005
• UK: 17 Feb 2006
DVD Release Date
• R1: Feb 21, 2006
Budget USD 40,000,000
BoxOffice: $29.1M
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MPAA Rating
Rated PG-13 for mature thematic material involving drugs and sexuality, and for some strong language.
Running Time
2 hours, 15 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
Rent Productions LLC, 1492 Pictures, Revolution Studios, Tribeca Productions
Studio Sony Pictures Classics
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• Rent (2005)
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Genre: Romance, Drama, Musical, Gay/Lesbian, Christmas
Tagline: No day but today.
Plot: 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
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RENT is mediocre and recommended only to those who can claim a familiarity with the play. Others will likely leave the multiplex with little desire ever to see the production on stage, which is a shame, since that's when RENT pays off.  --James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
Mention AIDS, gay marriage, drug addition, and drag queens and some people will automatically tune out. This film includes all the above – and it’s a musical – so it may turn off mainstream audiences. “Rent” also requires you to embrace the idea New Yorkers wander the streets and subways singing and dancing. But for those open-minded enough to give it a chance, “Rent” is an experience not to be missed and one of the absolute best movie musicals of the past few decades. A--Rebecca Murray (About.com)
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Chris Columbus
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Home Alone |
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| Watching it, you get the sense that not a single person involved has any remembrance of what it's like to be a penniless, starving artist, if indeed they ever knew. Jonathan Larson wrote "Rent" from a passion he had, because he burned with ideas he wanted to express. (He died, not of AIDS, weeks before the show opened.).. C --Eric D. Snider (EricDSnider.com)
...Rent isn't too bad and if the stage musical is as fantastic as many claim, it certainly did not translate onto the big screen. Oddly, I think Rent is worth just that: a rental. The Rent-heads seem to claim this as a grand piece of cinema which I failed to grasp, although maybe in time it'll grow on me; at least I hope so since I did enjoy some of the music and performances.  --Brian Oliver (MovieMansGuide.com)
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