Rent Movie

Director:
Chris Columbus

Writers (WGA):
Stephen Chbosky (screenplay)
Jonathan Larson (book)

Release Date:
23 November 2005 (USA)

Genre:
Drama | Musical | Romance

Cast :
* Anthony Rapp as Mark Cohen - A struggling filmmaker and Roger's roommate. Was dumped by Maureen for Joanne.
* Adam Pascal as Roger Davis - An HIV-positive ex-junkie rock musician. Mimi's love interest.
* Rosario Dawson as Mimi Marquez - An HIV-positive heroin junkie and nightclub dancer. Roger's love interest.
* Jesse L. Martin as Tom Collins - A philosophy professor suffering from AIDS; former roommate of Maureen, Roger, Mark, and Benny; Angel's love interest.
* Wilson Jermaine Heredia as Angel Dumott Schunard - A drag queen street musician who is suffering from AIDS. Collins' love interest.
* Idina Menzel as Maureen Johnson - A performance artist and Joanne's girlfriend; Mark's ex-girlfriend.
* Tracie Thoms as Joanne Jefferson - A lesbian Harvard-graduated lawyer and Maureen's love interest.
* Taye Diggs as Benjamin (Benny) Coffin III - Mark, Roger, and Mimi's apartment building landlord and ex-roommate of Collins, Roger, Maureen, and Mark.

Original Sound Track :
Disc 1
1. Seasons of Love
2. Rent
3. You'll See
4. One Song Glory
5. Light My Candle
6. Today 4 U
7. Tango Maureen
8. Life Support
9. Out Tonight
10. Another Day
11. Will I
12. Santa Fe
13. I'll Cover You
14. Over the Moon
Disc 2
1. La Vie Boheme
2. I Should Tell You
3. La Vie Boheme B
4. Seasons of Love B
5. Take Me or Leave Me
6. Without You
7. I'll Cover You
8. Halloween
9. Goodbye Love
10. What You Own
11. Finale A
12. Your Eyes
13. Finale B
14. Love Heals

Plot :
Based on Puccini's classic opera La Boheme, Jonathan Larson's revolutionary rock opera Rent tells the story of a group of bohemians struggling to live and pay their rent in the gritty background of New York's East Village. "Measuring their lives in love," these starving artists strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic.

One of the longest running shows on Broadway, Rent was the winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Obie Award, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, four Tony Awards and three Drama Desk awards.

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