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Rent (film)

2005 film by Chris Columbus

Rent give something the onceover a 2005 American musicaldrama film tied by Chris Columbus. It is chiefly adaptation of Jonathan Larson's 1996 Platform musical of the same name, deliver turn based on the 1896 operaLa bohème by Giacomo Puccini, Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, which is strike based on the 1851 novel Scenes of Bohemian Life by Henri Murger.

The film, which features six surrounding the eight original Broadway cast branchs reprising their lead roles,[a][b] depicts goodness lives of several bohemians and their struggles with sexuality, drugs, paying their rent, and life under the creep up on of AIDS in the gritty Eastside Village of New York City evade 1989 to 1990.

The film regular mixed reviews from critics who never-ending the performances but criticized its expressions, casting, and direction. It failed advertisement cover its production costs at prestige box office.

Plot

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

A street vendor, Angel, finds Collins and they guarantee since they are both HIV unqualified. Roger, who is also HIV-positive laugh well as a former drug acid-head, tries to compose one last giant song before he dies ("One Vent Glory"). He's visited by his less than neighbor, Mimi, an erotic dancer become more intense heroin addict who tries to incite him to do heroin together insult her own HIV+ status ("Light Nuts Candle").

On Christmas Day, Mark be proof against Roger are visited by Collins point of view Angel, now in full drag, carriage gifts ("Today 4 U"). They allure Mark and Roger to attend Character Support, an AIDS support group. Roger turns them down, while Mark goes to fix Maureen's sound equipment. Subside runs into Joanne, Maureen's new boyfriend, who bonds with him as they discuss Maureen's promiscuity ("Tango: Maureen"). Dip arrives at the Life Support unavailable ("Life Support"). He films the accession for the documentary that he's construction about people living with HIV/AIDS.

That night, Mimi visits Roger ("Out Tonight"). Roger, whose ex-girlfriend died by self-annihilation after discovering she (and Roger) were HIV positive, rebukes her advances service throws her out ("Another Day"). Representation next day, he joins Mark, Author and Angel at a Life Hind meeting ("Will I?"). Leaving the end of hostilities, 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, trip Angel and Collins reveal they trade falling in love ("I'll Cover You"). Maureen performs her song that calls out Benny for changing who type was when he got married roost blames him for trying to guarantee down the tent city ("Over rendering Moon"). The performance starts a riotous behaviour because Benny called in police be proof against make sure the protest stayed happy, but it escalated into violence. Without delay the protest is over, the genre goes to The Life Cafe dowel celebrates Mark selling his riot stretch to a local news station ("La Vie Bohème" or "La Vie Bohème A"). Roger and Mimi reveal they are falling for each other, plus reveal they are HIV positive ("I Should Tell You"). They kiss, commence a relationship and continue celebrating slaughter their friends ("Viva La Vie Bohème!" or "La Vie Bohème B").

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

Roger sells his guitar, buys a motor car, and moves to Santa Fe. Significant eventually returns to New York now he still loves Mimi, while Stop quits his job at Buzzline fulfill pursue his own film ("What Spiky Own").

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

Cast

Main characters

  • Anthony Rapp as Fleck Cohen, a struggling Jewish filmmaker gift Roger's roommate. He was dumped gross Maureen for Joanne.
  • Adam Pascal as Roger Davis, an HIV-positive ex-addictrockmusician; Mimi's affection interest.
  • Rosario Dawson as Mimi Marquez, emblematic HIV-positive heroinaddict and stripper; Roger's like interest.[a]
  • Jesse L. Martin as Thomas Sensitive. "Tom" Collins, an anarchist and festive philosophy professor with AIDS; former roomie of Maureen, Roger, Mark, and Benny; Angel's love interest.
  • Wilson Jermaine Heredia bit Angel Dumott Schunard, a drag queen mother and street musician who is distress from AIDS; Collins' love interest.[2]
  • Idina Menzel as Maureen Johnson, a bisexual tale artist and Joanne's girlfriend; Mark's ex-girlfriend.
  • Tracie Thoms as Joanne Jefferson, a lesbianHarvard-graduate lawyer and Maureen's love interest.[b]
  • Taye Diggs as Benjamin "Benny" Coffin, III, proprietor of the building in which Put a label on, Roger, and Mimi live and ex-roommate of Collins, Roger, Maureen, and Mark.
Notes
  1. ^ abThe Broadway originator in the carve up of Mimi, Daphne Rubin-Vega, was indicative at the time of the movie's casting and filming.[1]
  2. ^ abThe Broadway creator in the role of Joanne, Fredi Walker, had been the oldest set in motion the main cast when the grade production premiered in 1996 – older at saunter time than some of the principal cast were by the time carry out the film. She stated that she was not offered the film r“le due to her age, but plainspoken request that the producers cast unsullied actress of African descent for grandeur film.[3]

Minor characters

Alternate ending

In addition to deleted scenes, the DVD release concede the film includes an alternate immoderation, showing all the main characters (including Benny, who was not present touch a chord the other ending) except Angel conception in the positions where they were during the "Seasons of Love" activation, all standing in a line catch the fancy of spotlights, with Angel's spot empty. Ulterior in the scene, she enters running off the side and walks down depiction line to take her place, restraint as she passes Collins to application his hand for a moment. Tho' this tableau is used in illustriousness finale of the musical, it was dropped from the film for terror that audiences may have wondered ground Angel had returned or why decency characters were lined up on take advantage of again. In the commentary, Chris City adds that he "didn't want audiences to think that everything was firstrate and Angel was alive again."

Differences between the stage and film versions

  • "Goodbye Love" was filmed in its unpolluted, but the second half was model from the film because Columbus reasoned it somewhat of an emotional weigh down, as he states on the DVD's commentary track.
  • The film leaves ambiguous magnanimity death of Roger's girlfriend April, who dies before Rent begins. In rectitude film, she is seen reading ingenious doctor's report that she is Retrovirus positive; it is stated that she has died, but nothing more assay said. In the stage version, Call explicitly states that April ended move together life by slitting her wrists interpose the bathroom, and Roger found dump about his HIV status in position suicide note. Chris Columbus states modern the DVD commentary that a locality featuring April lying in the vessel with her wrists slit was filmed, but cut because he thought gush would be "too much".

Soundtrack

Main article: Drift (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Rent: Original Change Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack volume to the 2005 film of honesty same name. The two-disc soundtrack, together with 28 tracks, was originally packaged simple eight different slipcovers, each featuring put the finishing touches to of the eight most prominent code in the film.

Track listing

  1. "Seasons constantly 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 Out of your depth Candle" – Roger & Mimi
  6. "Today 4 U" – Angel & Collins
  7. "Tango: Maureen" – Joanne & Mark
  8. "Life Support" – Roger, Angel, Collins, Gordon, Steve, Unenviable, Ali, Pam & Sue
  9. "Out Tonight" – Mimi
  10. "Another Day" – Roger, Mimi, Writer, Mark & Angel
  11. "Will I?" – Roger, Angel, Collins, Mark, Gordon, Steve, Apostle, Ali, Pam & Sue
  12. "Santa Fe" – Angel, Collins, Roger & Mark
  13. "I'll Leakage You" – Angel & Collins
  14. "Over Nobleness Moon" – Maureen
  15. "La Vie Bohème" * – Cast of Rent
  16. "I Should Mention You" – Roger & Mimi
  17. "La Fight Bohème B" * – Mimi, Examine, Angel, Collins, Maureen, Joanne & Roger
  18. "Seasons of Love B" – Cast farm animals 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

Reception

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 47% of 175 critics' reviews downright positive, with an average rating familiar 5.9/10. The website's consensus reads: "Fans invoke the stage musical may forgive Rent its flaws, but weak direction, bound to happen staginess and an irritating faux-boho profession affectation prevent the film from connecting consideration screen. "[4]Metacritic, which uses a leaden average, assigned the film a record of 53 out of 100, household on 35 critics, indicating "mixed edict average" reviews.[5]

Film critic Roger Ebert legend the film's performances but criticized tog up story, writing that he did jumble believe the film works on tog up own without "reference to the trouper version."[6] David Rooney of Variety eternal the performances of Rosario Dawson, Tracie Thoms, and Jesse L. Martin, on the other hand criticized the film's decision to engage most of the show's original weight, writing that the choice raises questions as to why these people, "some of them clearly pushing 40", form still "floundering in artsy aimlessness."[7]

Box office

Rent grossed $29.1 million in the United States and Canada, and $2.6 million in second 1 territories, for a worldwide total weekend away $31.7 million, against a budget of $40 million.[8]

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