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, ilness and the AIDS epidemic.
Release Date: November 23, 2005 Studio: Columbia Pictures Director: Chris Columbus
Screenwriter: Chris Columbus, Stephen Chbosky Starring: Rosario Dawson, Taye Diggs, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Jesse L. Martin, Idina Menzel, Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp, Tracie Thoms Genre: Drama, Musical MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for mature thematic material involving drugs and sexuality, and for some strong language) Official Website: SonyPictures.com
MPAA: Rated PG-13 for mature thematic material involving drugs and sexuality, and for some strong language.For rating reasons, go to FILMRATINGS.COM, and MPAA.ORG. Parents, please refer to PARENTALGUIDE.ORG
A War in my Soul
RENT
As I watched this long awaited film version of the Tony Award winning musical "Rent", a war was going on within my soul..
I was not sure what that awe was from, whether the music, the story, the acting, the theater, whatever it was, I was not sure. But what I did know was that there was something powerful and that in some way Rent is a picture of all that is good about art.
In the last ten years, one of the most talked about Broadway musicals has been Rent. It won the Tony award for Best Musical in 1996 and has been performed in NYC and around the country since then.
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, ilness and the AIDS epidemic.
One of the longest running shows on Broadway, "Rent" was the winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Drame, the Obie Award, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, four Tony Awards and three Drama Desk awards.
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