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Rent is a 2005 American musical drama film directed by Chris Columbus. It is an adaptation of the 1996 Broadway musical of the same name, in turn based on Giacomo Puccini's 1896 opera La bohème.

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Rent
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Chris Columbus
Screenplay by	Stephen Chbosky
Based on	Rent by Jonathan Larson
Produced by	Jane Rosenthal Robert De Niro Chris Columbus Mark Radcliffe Michael Barnathan
Starring	Rosario Dawson Taye Diggs Wilson Jermaine Heredia Jesse L. Martin Idina Menzel Adam Pascal Anthony Rapp Tracie Thoms
Cinematography	Stephen Goldblatt
Edited by	Richard Pearson
Music by	Jonathan Larson
Production companies	Columbia Pictures Revolution Studios 1492 Pictures Tribeca Productions
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Releasing
Release dates	November 17, 2005 (2005-11-17) (Ziegfeld Theatre) November 23, 2005 (2005-11-23) (United States)
Running time	135 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$40 million[1]
Box office	$31.7 million[1]

The film, which features six of the original Broadway cast members reprising their roles, depicts the lives of several bohemians and their struggles with sexuality, drugs, paying their rent, and life under the shadow of AIDS in the gritty East Village of New York City from 1989 to 1990.

Plot

On Christmas Eve 1989, aspiring filmmaker Mark Cohen, and his roommate, Roger Davis, learn that the rent previously waived by their old friend and now landlord, Benjamin "Benny" Coffin III, is due ("Rent"). Their former roommate Tom Collins shows up and gets mugged. Mark and Roger meet with Benny, who tells them he plans to evict the homeless from the nearby lot and build a cyber studio ("You'll See"). He offers them free rent if they get Maureen, Mark's ex-girlfriend, to cancel her protest against his plans, but they refuse.

A street drummer, Angel, finds Collins and they bond since they are both HIV positive. Roger, who is HIV-positive and a former drug addict, tries to compose his one last great song ("One Song Glory"). He's visited by his downstairs neighbor, Mimi, an erotic dancer and heroin addict who tries to convince him to do heroin together despite her own HIV+ status ("Light My Candle").

On Christmas Day, Mark and Roger are visited by Collins and Angel, now in full drag, bearing gifts ("Today 4 U"). They invite Mark and Roger to attend Life Support, an AIDS support group. Roger turns them down, while Mark goes to fix Maureen's sound equipment. He runs into Joanne, Maureen's new girlfriend, who bonds with him as they discuss Maureen's promiscuity ("Tango: Maureen"). Mark arrives at the Life Support meeting ("Life Support"). He films the meeting for the documentary that he's making about people living with HIV/AIDS.

Mimi visits Roger ("Out Tonight"). Roger, whose ex-girlfriend died by suicide after discovering she (and Roger) were HIV positive, rebukes her advances and throws her out ("Another Day"). The next day, he joins Mark, Collins and Angel at a Life Support meeting ("Will I?"). Leaving the meeting, the group imagines what it would be like to move to Santa Fe, New Mexico ("Santa Fe"). Roger and Mark leave to help Maureen set up for her performance, and Angel and Collins reveal they are falling in love ("I'll Cover You"). Maureen performs her song that calls out Benny for changing who he was when he got married and blames him for trying to shut down the tent city ("Over the Moon"). The performance starts a riot because Benny called in police to make sure the protest stayed peaceful, but it escalated into violence. Once the protest is over, the group goes to The Life Cafe and celebrates Mark selling his riot footage to a local news station ("La Vie Bohème" or "La Vie Bohème A"). Roger and Mimi reveal they are falling for each other, and reveal they are HIV positive ("I Should Tell You"). They kiss, start a relationship and continue celebrating with their friends ("Viva La Vie Bohème!" or "La Vie Bohème B").

On New Years Day, Benny has padlocked the apartment, but Angel breaks the lock with a garbage can. Mark takes a job at Buzzline, the television news program that he sold his riot footage to. After another fight, Maureen proposes to Joanne; the relationship ends when Maureen flirts with another woman at the engagement party ("Take Me or Leave Me"). After being persuaded by Mimi, his ex-girlfriend, Benny gives the group back their apartment. Over the following year, Roger grows distrustful of Mimi due to her massive usage of drugs, and their relationship ends ("Without You"). Angel becomes more ill and eventually succumbs to AIDS. At Angel's funeral on Halloween, the group goes their separate ways after a bitter argument, although Maureen and Joanne reconcile in the process ("I'll Cover You/Goodbye Love").

Roger sells his guitar, buys a car, and moves to Santa Fe. He soon returns to New York because he still loves Mimi. Mark quits his job at Buzzline to pursue his own film ("What You Own").

On Christmas Eve 1990, Mark and Roger reunite with Collins, who reveals that he has reprogrammed an ATM to dispense cash when someone inputs the code: A-N-G-E-L. Joanne and Maureen find Mimi on the streets, near death. Mimi and Roger reconcile, and he sings the song that he has written over the past year ("Finale A/Your Eyes"). Mimi appears to die but suddenly awakens. She tells them that she was heading to the light, but Angel told her to go back. As Mark's documentary is shown for the first time, the friends reaffirm that there is "no day but today" ("Finale B").

Cast

Main characters

• Anthony Rapp as Mark Cohen, a struggling Jewish filmmaker and Roger's roommate. He was dumped by Maureen for Joanne.
• Adam Pascal as Roger Davis, an HIV-positive ex-addict rock musician; Mimi's love interest.
• Rosario Dawson as Mimi Marquez, an HIV-positive heroin addict and stripper; Roger's love interest.
• Jesse L. Martin as Thomas B. "Tom" Collins, an anarchist and gay philosophy professor with AIDS; former roommate of Maureen, Roger, Mark, and Benny; Angel's love interest.
• Wilson Jermaine Heredia as Angel Dumott Schunard, a drag queen and street musician who is suffering from AIDS; Collins' love interest.[2]
• Idina Menzel as Maureen Johnson, a bisexual performance artist and Joanne's girlfriend; Mark's ex-girlfriend.
• Tracie Thoms as Joanne Jefferson, a lesbian Harvard-graduate lawyer and Maureen's love interest.
• Taye Diggs as Benjamin "Benny" Coffin, III, landlord of the building in which Mark, Roger, and Mimi live and ex-roommate of Collins, Roger, Maureen, and Mark.

Minor characters

• Aaron Lohr as Steve
• Daniel London as Paul
• Wayne Wilcox as Gordon
• Chris Chalk as Street Vendor
• Mackenzie Firgens as April
• Corey Rosen as Cafe Manager
• Shaun Earl as Waiter
• Rod Arrants as Mr. Hansen
• Mike Garibaldi as Mr. Grey
• Jennifer Siebel Newsom as Receptionist (at Buzzline)
• Sarah Silverman as Alexi Darling (at Buzzline)
• Daryl Edwards as Mr. Jefferson
• Anna Deavere Smith as Mrs. Jefferson
• Kevin Blackton as Mr. Johnson
• Bettina Devin as Mrs. Johnson
• Joel Swetow as Mr. Cohen
• Randy Graff as Mrs. Cohen

Alternate ending

In addition to four deleted scenes, the DVD release of the film includes an alternate ending, showing all the main characters (including Benny, who was not present in the other ending) except Angel standing in the positions where they were during the "Seasons of Love" opening, all standing in a line of spotlights, with Angel's spot empty. Later in the scene, she enters from the side and walks down the line to take her place, stopping as she passes Collins to take his hand for a moment. Although this tableau is used in the finale of the musical, it was dropped from the film for fear that audiences may have wondered why Angel had returned or why the characters were lined up on stage again. In the commentary, Chris Columbus adds that he "didn't want audiences to think that everything was okay and Angel was alive again."

Differences between the stage and film versions

• "Goodbye Love" was filmed in its entirety, but the second half was cut from the film because Columbus considered it somewhat of an emotional overload, as he states on the DVD's commentary track.
• The film leaves ambiguous the death of Roger's girlfriend April, who dies before Rent begins. In the film, she is seen reading a doctor's report that she is HIV positive; it is stated that she has died, but nothing more is said. In the stage version, Mark explicitly states that April ended her life by slitting her wrists in the bathroom, and Roger found out about his HIV status in the suicide note. Chris Columbus states in the DVD commentary that a scene featuring April lying in the bathtub with her wrists slit was filmed, but cut because he thought it would be "too much".

Soundtrack

Rent (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Soundtrack album by Rent
Released	September 23, 2005 (2005-09-23)
Recorded	2004-2005
Genre	Musical, soundtrack
Length	95:00 (2-Disc Movie Soundtrack) 64:38 (Selections Soundtrack)
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	Rob Cavallo
Singles from Rent (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
"Seasons of Love" Released: August 2, 2005 (iTunes) "La Vie Bohème" Released: 2005 "La Vie Bohème B" Released: 2005 "Finale B" Released: 2005 "Take Me or Leave Me" Released: 2005

Rent: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album to the 2005 film of the same name. The two-disc soundtrack, containing 28 tracks, was originally packaged in eight different slipcovers, each featuring one of the eight most prominent characters in the film.

Track listing

1. "Seasons of Love" – Joanne, Collins, Mimi, Roger, Maureen, Mark, Angel & 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" – Angel & Collins
7. "Tango: Maureen" – Joanne & Mark
8. "Life Support" – Roger, Angel, Collins, Gordon, Steve, Paul, Ali, Pam & Sue
9. "Out Tonight" – Mimi
10. "Another Day" – Roger, Mimi, Collins, Mark & Angel
11. "Will I?" – Roger, Angel, Collins, Mark, Gordon, Steve, Paul, Ali, 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" * – Cast of Rent
16. "I Should Tell You" – Roger & Mimi
17. "La Vie Bohème B" * – Mimi, Mark, Angel, Collins, Maureen, Joanne & Roger
18. "Seasons of Love B" – Cast of Rent
19. "Take Me 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, Mark & Collins
24. "What You Own" – Roger & Mark
25. "Finale A" – Mimi & Roger
26. "Your Eyes" – Roger
27. "Finale B* " – Cast of Rent
28. "Love Heals" – Cast of Rent

Remixes

In promotion for the film, Warner Brothers had dance remixes of several of the songs commissioned. These were sent to clubs, and were also made of available for purchase on CD and download.

Seasons of Love: The Remixes (CD)

Source:[3]

1. Seasons of Love (Gomi's Lair Club Mix) – 8:22
2. Seasons of Love (Monkey Bars Club Mix) – 7:20
3. Seasons of Love (L.E.X. Theatrical Club Mix) – 8:11
4. Seasons of Love (Eddie Baez's "Payin' The Rent" Club Mix) – 10:13
5. Seasons of Love (Gomi's Lair Radio Edit) – 3:44
6. Seasons of Love (Monkey Bars Remix Edit) – 4:48
7. Seasons of Love (L.E.X. Theatrical Club Mix Edit) – 4:57
8. Seasons of Love (Eddie Baez's "Payin' The Rent" Club Mix Edit) – 4:59

Seasons of Love: The Remixes (Digital Download)

Source:[4]

1. Seasons of Love (Gomi's Lair Radio Edit) – 3:44
2. Seasons of Love (Monkey Bars Remix Edit) – 4:48
3. Seasons of Love (L.E.X. Theatrical Club Mix Edit) – 4:57
4. Seasons of Love (Eddie Baez's "Payin' The Rent" Club Mix Edit) – 4:59

Take Me or Leave Me: The Remixes (CD)

Source:[5]

1. Take Me or Leave Me (Tracy Young Radio) – 3:35
2. Take Me or Leave Me (Tracy Young Remix) – 8:35
3. Take Me or Leave Me (Gabriel D Vine's Big Band Disco Remix) – 6:16
4. Take Me or Leave Me (Jackie And Jorio Club Mix) – 7:09
5. Take Me or Leave Me (Tracy Young Dub) – 10:09
6. Out Tonight (Mark!'s Redux Club Remix) – 8:32
7. Light My Candle (Monkey Bars Remix) – 6:27

Take Me or Leave Me: The Remixes (Digital Download)

Source:[6]

1. Take Me or Leave Me (Tracy Young Radio) – 3:35
2. Take Me or Leave Me (Tracy Young Mixshow) – 6:44
3. Take Me or Leave Me (Jackie and Jorio Club Mix) – 7:09
4. Take Me or Leave Me (Gabriel D Vine's Big Band Disco Remix) – 6:16
5. Out Tonight (Mark!'s Redux Club Remix Edit) – 4:55
6. Light My Candle (Monkey Bars Remix) – 6:27

Musicians

• Tim Pierce (acoustic guitar, electric guitar)
• Jamie Muhoberac (piano, organ, keyboards)
• Paul Bushnell (bass guitar)
• Dorian Crozier (drums, percussion, programming)
• Tim Weil (piano)
• Gregory Curtis (organ)
• Greg Suran (acoustic guitar, electric guitar)
• Suzie Katayama (cello, accordion)

Recording engineers

• Doug McKean (Chief Engineer)
• Charles Williams (Assistant Engineer)
• Elan Trujillo (Assistant Engineer)

Critical response

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On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 46% based on reviews from 175 critics, with an average rating of 5.90/10. The site's critic consensus reads, "Fans of the stage musical may forgive Rent its flaws, but weak direction, inescapable staginess and an irritating faux-boho pretension prevent the film from connecting on screen."[7] On another review aggregator, Metacritic, the film received a score of 53 out of 100 based on 35 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[8]

See also

• List of Christmas films

References

Footnotes

Bibliography

• Yahoo! Movies: Greg's Preview for Rent
• Tuesday Night Movie Club: Rent Script Review
• Playbill: Will Justin Timberlake Appear in Movie Version of Rent?
• Playbill: Rent Film Aims to Start Production in Spring 2005 for Late-Year Release
• "Seasons of Love" Press Release, August 2, 2005
• Movies On Line: RENT...Stars For Rent
• Broadway World: Success of Rent Promises Good Tidings for Upcoming Broadway Films

External links

• Official website
  • Official blog
• Rent at IMDb
• Rent at Metacritic
• Rent at Box Office Mojo
• Rent at Rotten Tomatoes
• Interview with Anthony Rapp and Taye Diggs and also Stephen John Ramirez

На других языках

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[it] Rent (film)

Rent è un film del 2005 diretto da Chris Columbus. È un adattamento cinematografico dell'omonimo musical di Broadway di Jonathan Larson vincitore del Premio Pulitzer e di diversi Tony Award. Il film racconta la vita di alcuni artisti bohémien e della loro sessualità, uso di droghe, della loro vita all'ombra dell'AIDS e del loro tentativo di (non) pagare l'affitto. È ambientato nell'East Village di Manhattan a New York alla fine degli anni '80. Il film, diretto da Chris Columbus, ha visto ritornare sei membri (degli otto protagonisti) dal musical originale di Broadway per riprendere i loro ruoli nel film.

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[ru] Богема (фильм, 2005)

«Богема» (англ. Rent) — фильм 2005 года, экранизация одноименного бродвейского мюзикла, получившего Пулитцеровскую премию и премию "Тони". Картина снята режиссёром Крисом Коламбусом.

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