Vote on this title

Do these genes fit this title?
Click on a gene to vote or discover related titles.

Does this gene fit Rent?

See more like Rent

See even more

Overview

Watch it:

Find it on:

	Twitter
	IMDb
	Rotten Tomatoes

Rent, 2005

Starring: Taye Diggs, Jesse L. Martin, Rosario Dawson

Directed by: Chris Columbus

Written by: Stephen Chbosky

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 135 min

MPAA Rating: PG_13

Rating:6.8

Watch it

More like it

Wish List

Favorites

Profile of Rent

The mood of Rent is bittersweet, emotional, and sentimental. The plot centers around transvestism, drug abuse, and artists and showbiz. It is a drama and musical movie. Stylistically, Rent is a film in a film. In approach, it is realistic. The setting is New York. Rent happens in the 1980s and in the 1990s. The musical score is show tunes and rock.

Summary of Rent

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.

Details

Language:	English
Country:	USA
Release date:	23 November 2005
Runtime:	135 min

Cast and Crew See all

Taye Diggs

as Benjamin Coffin III

Jesse L. Martin

as Tom Collins

Rosario Dawson

as Mimi Marquez

Photos See all

Anthony Rapp as Mark in Rent (2005)

Idina Menzel as Maureen in Rent (2005)

Adam Pascal as Roger in Rent (2005)

Idina Menzel as Maureen in Rent (2005)

Clips See all

Rent: Home Video

Rent: Theatrical

Rent: Santa Fe

Critics Reviews See all

Chicago Tribune

It's a pretty good version of a pretty great stage phenomenon. Full Review

|
by: Michael Phillips

The New York Times

Often dramatically jumbled and musically muddled - but every time the film seemed ready to tip into awfulness, the sneer on my lips was trumped by the lump in my throat. Full Review

|
by: Dana Stevens

Users Reviews See all

As was the case with "Jesus Christ Superstar," I was lucky enough to hear the soundtrack to "Rent" long before I saw the movie. I really liked much of the music (although not all of it, and I still think many of the lyrics could have used a... Read and rate it

19.September.2012
|
by: Bill Shannon
Bill Shannon rated this movie0/10

The songs are here, mostly intact, and mostly indistinguishable from the Broadway CD. And indeed, Act I of the movie seemed to be nothing more than a series of mediocre music videos strung together without any transition or segue in between them.... Read and rate it

02.July.2009
|
by: Michael Cain
Michael Cain rated this movie0/10

Jinni is more fun with friends!

To:

OR add contacts from a webmail or network:

Email:

Password:

Never saved or shared

These people could join your Movie Circle on Jinni!

Select all

Add a personal message or stick with ours:

Success! Invites sent.

Likely to see

Not for me

You

Your Feedback

Us

Help

Jinni is best for now in Firefox, Internet Explorer 7 and 8, and Chrome