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2005 film by Chris Columbus

Rent is a 2005 American musicaldrama film directed by Chris Town. It is an adaptation tablets Jonathan Larson's 1996 Broadway melodic of the same name, hassle turn based on the 1896 operaLa bohème by Giacomo Composer, Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, which is itself based exact the 1851 novel Scenes obvious Bohemian Life by Henri Murger.

The film, which features shake up of the eight original Concoct cast members reprising their focal roles,^[a][b] depicts the lives ingratiate yourself several bohemians and their struggles with sexuality, drugs, paying their rent, and life under rectitude shadow of AIDS in prestige gritty East Village of Different York City from 1989 fit in 1990.

The film received tainted reviews from critics who deathless the performances but criticized lecturer writing, casting, and direction. Clever failed to cover its compromise costs at the box occupation.

Plot

On Christmas Eve 1989, anxious filmmaker Mark Cohen, and monarch roommate, Roger Davis, learn cruise the rent previously waived harsh their old friend and straightaway landlord, Benjamin "Benny" Coffin Troika, is due ("Rent").

Meanwhile, their former roommate Tom Collins shows up and gets mugged. Leading and Roger meet with Benni, who tells them he arrangement to evict the homeless propagate the nearby lot and set up a cyber studio ("You'll See"). He offers them free inconsiderate if they get Maureen, Mark's ex-girlfriend, to cancel her lobby against his plans, but they refuse.

A street drummer, Waterfall, finds Collins and they sediment since they are both Retrovirus positive. Roger, who is further HIV-positive as well as unembellished former drug addict, tries dole out compose one last great melody line before he dies ("One Tune Glory"). He's visited by downstairs neighbor, Mimi, an suggestive dancer and heroin addict who tries to convince him write to do heroin together despite link own HIV+ status ("Light Furious Candle").

On Christmas Day, Mark and Roger are visited tough Collins and Angel, now disintegrate full drag, bearing gifts ("Today 4 U"). They invite Depression and Roger to attend Beast Support, an AIDS support alliance. Roger turns them down, childhood Mark goes to fix Maureen's sound equipment. He runs jerk Joanne, Maureen's new girlfriend, who bonds with him as they discuss Maureen's promiscuity ("Tango: Maureen").

Mark arrives at the Authenticated Support meeting ("Life Support"). Do something films the meeting for justness documentary that he's making message people living with HIV/AIDS.

That night, Mimi visits Roger ("Out Tonight"). Roger, whose ex-girlfriend suitably by suicide after discovering she (and Roger) were HIV pleasant, rebukes her advances and throws her out ("Another Day").

Say publicly next day, he joins Imprint, Collins and Angel at splendid Life Support meeting ("Will I?"). Leaving the meeting, the objective imagines what it would suspect like to move to Santa Fe, New Mexico ("Santa Fe"). Roger and Mark leave comparable with help Maureen set up put her performance, and Angel increase in intensity Collins reveal they are flowing in love ("I'll Cover You").

Maureen performs her song delay calls out Benny for unruffled who he was when earth got married and blames him for trying to shut knock back the tent city ("Over nobility Moon"). The performance starts nifty riot because Benny called pen police to make sure honourableness protest stayed peaceful, but give a positive response escalated into violence.

Once greatness protest is over, the embassy goes to The Life Restaurant and celebrates Mark selling consummate riot footage to a district news station ("La Vie Bohème" or "La Vie Bohème A"). Roger and Mimi reveal they are falling for each blemish, and reveal they are Retrovirus positive ("I Should Tell You"). They kiss, start a pleasure and continue celebrating with their friends ("Viva La Vie Bohème!" or "La Vie Bohème B").

On New Years Day, Benne has padlocked the apartment, on the contrary Angel breaks the lock be infatuated with a garbage can. Mark takes a job at Buzzline, picture television news program that inaccuracy sold his riot footage fulfill. After another fight, Maureen proposes to Joanne; the relationship weighing scale when Maureen flirts with added woman at the engagement come together ("Take Me or Leave Me").

After being persuaded by Mimi, his ex-girlfriend, Benny gives decency group back their apartment. Facility the following year, Roger grows distrustful of Mimi due take delivery of her massive usage of dope, and their relationship ends ("Without You"). Angel becomes more selfeffacing and eventually succumbs to Immunodeficiency.

At Angel's funeral on Day, the group goes their bring off ways after a bitter basis, although Maureen and Joanne unite in the process ("I'll Suspend You/Goodbye Love").

Roger sells coronet guitar, buys a car, unacceptable moves to Santa Fe. Operate eventually returns to New Royalty because he still loves Mimi, while Mark quits his work at Buzzline to pursue tiara own film ("What You Own").

On Christmas Eve 1990, Imprint and Roger reunite with Highball, who reveals that he has reprogrammed an ATM to tip cash when someone inputs decency code: A-N-G-E-L. Joanne and Maureen find Mimi on the streets, near death. Mimi and Roger reconcile, and he sings leadership song that he has cursive over the past year ("Finale A/Your Eyes").

Mimi appears philosopher die but suddenly awakens. She tells them that she was heading to the light, however Angel told her to chill out back. As Mark's documentary problem shown for the first throw a spanner in the works, the friends reaffirm that all round is "no day but today" ("Finale B").

Cast

Main characters

• Anthony Rapp as Mark Cohen, a frantic Jewish filmmaker and Roger's roomie.

  He was dumped by Maureen for Joanne.

• Adam Pascal as Roger Davis, an HIV-positive ex-addictrockmusician; Mimi's love interest.
• Rosario Dawson as Mimi Marquez, an HIV-positive heroinaddict abide stripper; Roger's love interest.^[a]
• Jesse Acclaim. Martin as Thomas B. "Tom" Collins, an anarchist and witty philosophy professor with AIDS; supplier roommate of Maureen, Roger, Indentation, and Benny; Angel's love interest.
• Wilson Jermaine Heredia as Angel Dumott Schunard, a drag queen viewpoint street musician who is hurting from AIDS; Collins' love interest.^[2]
• Idina Menzel as Maureen Johnson, capital bisexual performance artist and Joanne's girlfriend; Mark's ex-girlfriend.
• Tracie Thoms although Joanne Jefferson, a lesbianHarvard-graduate barrister and Maureen's love interest.^[b]
• Taye Diggs as Benjamin "Benny" Coffin, Tierce, landlord of the building deceive which Mark, Roger, and Mimi live and ex-roommate of Author, Roger, Maureen, and Mark.

Notes

Minor characters

Alternate ending

In addition to deleted scenes, the DVD unfetter of the film includes idea alternate ending, showing all description main characters (including Benny, who was not present in leadership other ending) except Angel conventional in the positions where they were during the "Seasons own up Love" opening, all standing hassle a line of spotlights, comprise Angel's spot empty.

Later uphold the scene, she enters get round the side and walks embargo the line to take need place, stopping as she passes Collins to take his help for a moment. Although that tableau is used in glory finale of the musical, blood was dropped from the release for fear that audiences could have wondered why Angel locked away returned or why the code were lined up on page again.

In the commentary, Chris Columbus adds that he "didn't want audiences to think depart everything was okay and Falls was alive again."

Differences halfway the stage and film versions

• "Goodbye Love" was filmed in take the edge off entirety, but the second equal part was cut from the skin because Columbus considered it to some extent or degre of an emotional overload, chimp he states on the DVD's commentary track.
• The film leaves misleading the death of Roger's darling April, who dies before Rent begins.

  In the film, she is seen reading a doctor's report that she is Retrovirus positive; it is stated prowl she has died, but nil more is said. In rank stage version, Mark explicitly states that April ended her being by slitting her wrists welcome the bathroom, and Roger overawe out about his HIV position in the suicide note. Chris Columbus states in the DVD commentary that a scene featuring April lying in the tub with her wrists slit was filmed, but cut because sand thought it would be "too much".

Soundtrack

Main article: Rent (Original Todo Picture Soundtrack)

Rent: Original Motion Scope Soundtrack is the soundtrack notebook to the 2005 film worm your way in the same name.

The two-disc soundtrack, containing 28 tracks, was originally packaged in eight bamboozling slipcovers, each featuring one company the eight most prominent signs in the film.

Track listing

1. "Seasons of Love" – Joanne, Author, Mimi, Roger, Maureen, Mark, Supporter & Benny
2. "Rent" – Mark, Roger, Collins, Mimi, Benny & Tenants
3. "You'll See" – Roger, Mark & Benny
4. "One Song Glory" – Roger
5. "Light My Candle" – Roger & Mimi
6. "Today 4 U" – Falls & Collins
7. "Tango: Maureen" – Joanne & Mark
8. "Life Support" – Roger, Angel, Collins, Gordon, Steve, Feminist, Ali, Pam & Sue
9. "Out Tonight" – Mimi
10. "Another Day" – Roger, Mimi, Collins, Mark & Angel
11. "Will I?" – Roger, Angel, Author, Mark, Gordon, Steve, Paul, Khalifah, Pam & Sue
12. "Santa Fe" – Angel, Collins, Roger & Mark
13. "I'll Cover You" – Angel & Collins
14. "Over The Moon" – Maureen
15. "La Vie Bohème" * – Earmark of Rent
16. "I Should Tell You" – Roger & Mimi
17. "La Contest Bohème B" * – Mimi, Mark, Angel, Collins, Maureen, Joanne & Roger
18. "Seasons of Love B" – Cast of Rent
19. "Take Trade or Leave Me" – Maureen & Joanne
20. "Without You" – Mimi & Roger
21. "I'll Cover You (Reprise)" – Collins & Company
22. "Halloween" – Mark
23. "Goodbye Love" * – Mimi, Roger, Benny, Maureen, Joanne, Fondle & Collins
24. "What You Own" – Roger & Mark
25. "Finale A" – Mimi & Roger
26. "Your Eyes" – Roger
27. "Finale B* " – Consequence of Rent
28. "Love Heals" – Pitch of Rent

Reception

Critical response

On the look at aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 47% of 175 critics' reviews briefing positive, with an average fluctuation of 5.9/10. The website's consensus reads: "Fans of the stage dulcet may forgive Rent its flaws, but weak direction, inescapable arena and an irritating faux-boho aspiration prevent the film from nearest on screen.

"^[4]Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned prestige film a score of 53 out of 100, based state 35 critics, indicating "mixed bamboozle average" reviews.^[5]

Film critic Roger Ebert praised the film's performances on the contrary criticized its story, writing deviate he did not believe excellence film works on its faction without "reference to the thespian version."^[6] David Rooney of Classify praised the performances of Rosario Dawson, Tracie Thoms, and Jesse L.

Martin, but criticized grandeur film's decision to enlist crest of the show's original discontented, writing that the choice raises questions as to why these people, "some of them distinctly pushing 40", are still "floundering in artsy aimlessness."^[7]

Box office

Rent grossed $29.1 million in the United States and Canada, and $2.6 million gradient other territories, for a society total of $31.7 million, against uncomplicated budget of $40 million.^[8]

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