Rent is a 2005 American film adaptation of the Broadway musical, which was based on Jonathan Larson’s Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning musical. This musical-based movie details of a couple of Bohemians and their struggles with sexuality, drugs, living under the shadow of AIDS, and of course, paying their rent. It takes place in the East Village area of New York City in the late 1980s. The film, directed by Chris Columbus, had six of the original B...
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Rent is a 2005 American film adaptation of the Broadway musical, which was based on Jonathan Larson’s Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning musical. This musical-based movie details of a couple of Bohemians and their struggles with sexuality, drugs, living under the shadow of AIDS, and of course, paying their rent. It takes place in the East Village area of New York City in the late 1980s. The film, directed by Chris Columbus, had six of the original Broadway cast members reprising their roles.
The film's plot is largely identical to that of the original Broadway musical, although there are several minor differences between the two resulting from the filmmakers' decision to omit several songs from the original musical and to change some of the spoken dialogue.
After an introduction with the cast singing "Seasons of Love", the film opens on Christmas Eve, 1989, with apartment tenants (including two friends and roommates, Mark (Anthony Rapp) and Roger (Adam Pascal)) expressing their anger at...
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