 | | Rent poster | Official Website: www.sonypictures.com/movies/rent Release Date: November 11, 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) Trailer: Click here Review: Not Available DVD Review: Not Available DVD/VHS: DVD release date (Feb. 21) Movie Poster: See below Buy Movie Poster: MovieGoods.com Production Stills: See below Plot Summary: 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.| Images: Poster and Stills (click to enlarge) | |