This article is about the 2005 film. For other uses, see Rent. Rent is a 2005 film adaptation of the Broadway musical of the same name. It details the struggles of a group of young friends in the East Village area of New York City in the late-1980s, early-1990s. The film, directed by Chris Columbus, had most of the original Broadway cast members reprising their original roles. Rent can refer to: Renting, a system of payment for the temporary use of something owned by someone else. ...
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Plot
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The film's plot is largely identical to that of the original Broadway musical, although there are several minor differences between the two resulting from the filmmakers' decision to omit several songs from the original musical, such as "Christmas Bells" and "We're Okay" and "I ROCK N ROLL" Rent is a rock musical, with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson[1] inspired by and partially based on Giacomo Puccinis opera La bohème. ...
After an introduction with the cast singing "Seasons of Love", the film opens on Christmas Eve, 1989, with apartment tenants (including two friends and roommates, Mark and Roger) expressing their anger with suddenly being asked to pay rent which had previously been waived by the landlord. Collins, a former roommate of Mark's and friend to both Mark and Roger, returns from out of town and is attacked by three men and left for dead in an alley ("Rent"). Benny, the landlord and former roommate of Mark and Collins, who has married into a wealthy family, offers to give Mark and Roger free rent again if they can convince Maureen (Mark's ex-girlfriend) to stop her protest. The protest is to take place at Maureen's performance space which Benny is planning to turn into a cyber-cafe ("You'll See").
Angel Dumott Schunard, who is an HIV-positive drag queen drummer, meets Collins, who is also HIV-positive, in the alley. We learn that these two characters are romantically interested in each other. Later that night, Roger mourns the loss of his girlfriend April, who committed suicide after learning that she was HIV positive, and sings of his desire to write one lasting song before his own death from AIDS ("One Song Glory"). Mimi, a night club dancer addicted to heroin, enters Roger's apartment and flirts with him ("Light My Candle").
The next morning, Roger and Mark meet Angel, who performs a song-and-dance number for them ("Today 4 U"). Angel invites them to join him and Collins at a meeting at a local community center. Roger declines but Mark accepts, telling them he will be there after he goes to help Maureen, who had called and asked for help with a technical problem. Mark goes to help Maureen, only to meet Joanne Jefferson, Maureen's new lover. They talk about Maureen's "hobby" of cheating ("Tango: Maureen"). He then proceeds to the Life Support Meeting. While there, Mark asks permission from the Support group members to film them for his new documentary. A man in the group talks about how he finds it hard to accept what they teach in the group, "but I try to open up to what I don't know, because reason says I should have died 3 years ago" ("Life Support"). Forward to a night club, with Mimi performing a song and dance routine, singing of her desire to go out and have a good time before her life ends ("Out Tonight"). She barges into Roger's apartment, where he gets angry at her ("Another Day").
The next day, Mark asks Roger if he wants to go to the Support group meeting with him, but Roger declines. At the meeting, the people began to question how their lives will continue now that they have the AIDS virus ("Will I?") During this, Roger joins the group, much to Angel's, Collins', and Mark's joy. On the way back to the apartments, the four friends talk about leaving New York and going out to Santa Fe and opening a restaurant ("Santa Fe"). After the subway ride, Mark and Roger go off to help Joanne at the lot where a protest Maureen is staging will take place. Walking down the streets, Collins and Angel express their love for each other in song ("I'll Cover You").
Maureen's protest happens later that night ("Over the Moon"). Benny has put the police on standby, which proves to be a mistake on his part. There is a riot, which causes Maureen to get even angrier at him. That night at the Life Cafe, everyone meets up. Mark reveals that he got the riot on film and the show Buzzline wants to put it on their show. Benny tells everyone that he is sorry (with the unmoved Maureen telling him to "go to hell") and that the reason his wife wasn't there was that there was a death in the family. It turns out to be his dog, who Angel caused to jump off their twenty-third-story apartment, not knowing it was Benny's. Benny tells the group that they need to grow up and start being responsible and questions them if they really want to continue living like they are ("La Vie Bohème") Mimi's watch timer goes off and we learn that she also has the AIDS virus, Roger and Mimi express their love for each other outside the cafe ("I Should Tell You"). The two re-enter the cafe and celebrate their newfound relationship ("La Vie Boheme B").
The gang celebrates the New Year together, with Mimi vowing to give up her drug habit and go back to school. However, they are locked out of their apartment, so Angel breaks the padlock with a garbage can. They enter, only to find that all of their things are gone.
Joanne serves as Mark's lawyer and they sell his footage to Buzzline and he negotiates a job there. He will be paid $3,000 per segment. During their conference with Alexi Darling (played by Sarah Silverman), the Buzzline supervisor, Joanne sees Maureen flirting with another woman. Outside, after being scolded by Joanne, Maureen proposes to her, and Joanne accepts. Fast forward to their engagement party, where Maureen flirts with yet another woman. Angry, Joanne threatens to leave her, while Maureen becomes angry at Joanne for "making" her be too monogamous ("Take Me or Leave Me"). They then walk out on each other. Benny has repossessed all of Roger's and Mark's things, but it is revealed that Mimi later had dinner with Benny and he had changed his mind. Roger finds out, and believes that she is cheating on him with Benny. Mimi resumes her drug habit and falls into a state of despair, while Angel gets progressively sicker and eventually dies ("Without You").
The next scene is Angel's funeral in a large church. Collins sings the song that he and Angel sang together ("I'll Cover You (Reprise)"). After the funeral, Roger and Mimi argue about their past relationship, as do Joanne and Maureen. In their argument, Roger reveals that he has sold his guitar, bought a car, and is planning to leave for Santa Fe ("Goodbye Love"). After he arrives in Santa Fe he discovers that he still loves Mimi can't stand to be away from her and decides to return. During this time Mark decides to finish his own film and quits his job at Buzzline ("What You Own"). However after Roger returns he finds out that Mimi has quit rehab and has gone missing. After a while, Joanne and Maureen find her at a park. She had been living on the streets. As she is about to die, Roger sings the song he has been writing over the last year ("Your Eyes"). Mimi is near death, but regains consciousness and says, "I was heading toward this warm, white light. And I swear, Angel was there…and she looked good! [Collins laughs.] She told me, 'Turn around, girlfriend, and listen to that boy's song.'" The six friends perform the finale. During the last song we get to see Mark's documentary ("Finale B"), entitled "Today 4 U: Proof Positive" (Today 4 U was the song Angel sang when he first met Roger and Mark) with the last frame being Angel, out of drag, holding his hand up to the light.
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In October 2004, Revolution Studios recovered the project, with Chris Columbus as the director and Columbia Pictures as the distributor. Columbus, himself an NYU student and graduate at the turn of the 1980s, and in the location where the musical and film are set, felt a connection with the characters and their experiences. He can actually be seen in the beginning as an irritated driver who finds his car windshield being washed. Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Cast
Principal characters All but two principal members of the original Broadway cast reprised their roles on film. Names in bold denote original Broadway cast members. Chris Columbus got the idea to give the original cast first dibs on the roles when he talked to Anthony Rapp, Adam Pascal and Idina Menzel about the musical and felt that they all still looked the same as when they premiered the show in 1996. Only Daphne Rubin-Vega and Fredi Walker, the original Mimi and Joanne respectively, were not cast in the film. Rubin-Vega was pregnant at the time of casting and (at roughly 35) was too old to play a character of 19. Walker herself stated that she looked too old to play the part of Joanne and therefore refused the offered role.[citation needed] Press photo of Daphne Rubin-Vega at the tenth anniversary performance of Rent Daphne Rubin-Vega (born November 18, 1969 in Panama City, Panama), also known simply as Daphne, is a dance music singer and actress. ...
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Rating In the US, the film has officially been rated PG-13 by the MPAA. The rating was actually taken into consideration with creative decisions during script writing and filming. Even with changes (such as removing pervasive profanity), director Chris Columbus still expresses amazement that the film received a "PG-13" due to risque scenes and content. In Quebec it is rated PG. In the U.S., it is rated PG-13 for mature thematic material involving sexuality & drugs and some strong language. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is a non-profit trade association formed to advance the interests of movie studios. ...
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Reception The movie earned mixed reviews, as indicated by its 48% rating on Rotten Tomatoes[1].
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Differences between the stage and movie versions As in the original musical, the story of the film spans the course of one year. The musical only stated that the action begins and ends on a December 24 and was meant to be the present; however, the movie provides precise yearly dates for the story (1989 to 1990). This creates some inconsistencies within the text of the film; for example, the song "Today 4 U" contains a reference to the film Thelma and Louise, which was not released until 1991.[3] Columbus has said that these specific dates were included because he intended for the action of the film to be taking place prior to the 1990s gentrification of Manhattan's East Village, the neighborhood in which the movie is set. is the 358th day of the year (359th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Many of the original songs from Broadway were cut in order to add dialogue to the film and make the flow of the plot seem more natural, whereas on Broadway, it was a rock opera with very little spoken dialogue. Songs which appear in the musical but not the film include "You Okay Honey?", "Christmas Bells", "Happy New Year A & B", "Contact" and "We're Okay" along with "Tune Ups #1-3" and all of the answering machine messages ("Voice Mail #1-5"). Sections of other songs were turned into spoken dialogue, including the entirety of "On The Street". A solo by Mark, "Halloween", was filmed, but cut because it didn't "fit in with the pacing" of the film. "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. Both scenes are on the second disc of the DVD set as special features.
There were three other deleted scenes featured on the DVD. One is an extended version of the scene just before "Without You" where Mimi, Roger, and Benny have a heated argument, and Angel graciously tries to calm them down only to accidentally imply that he may have been involved with the death of Benny's dog. This scene was cut because Columbus didn't want to dwell on the Mimi & Benny relationship at that particular moment. Another is a small scene right before the second part of "Goodbye Love" where Benny pays for Angel's funeral; Collins tells Benny that he just paid for the funeral of the person that killed his dog, but Benny reveals that he was aware of this and expresses dislike for the dog. The scene was cut because it was a humorous moment that took the "tension" out of the preceding scene. The final deleted scene is where Roger meets Benny at the Life Cafe and learns that Benny just wanted to be a friend to Mimi, who still loves Roger (it is unknown why this was cut).
The movie includes a scene of a commitment ceremony between Maureen and Joanne that culminates in the song "Take Me Or Leave Me" and the breakup of Maureen and Joanne's relationship. In the original musical, there was no commitment ceremony scene, and the fateful argument between Maureen and Joanne took place while the two of them were rehearsing for another protest. They would eventually reunite during "Without You" and break up again in "Contact."
In the musical, Benny padlocks the apartment building immediately after the protest, and the friends spend New Year's Eve trying to break back in, with Joanne, Maureen and Mark breaking through a window while Angel uses a blowtorch to break the padlock. In the movie, the building isn't found to be padlocked until New Year's Day, with Angel breaking it with a garbage can. In both scenes, Benny arrives shortly after and restores the power.
In the song "Out Tonight" from the film, Mimi states, "We won't be back before it's New Years Day!", while in the musical Mimi states, "We won't be back before it's Christmas Day". This is because Act One of the musical takes place over the course of one night, and in the movie is over three days. Similarly, before "Today 4 U," in the movie, Collins sings, "Gentlemen, our benefactor on this Christmas Day/Whose charity is only met by talent, I must say" while in the stage version, it is "Gentlemen, our benefactor on this Christmas Eve/Whose charity is only met by talent, I believe", once again because of the timespan changes.
The film also 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 committed suicide by slitting her wrists in the bathroom. The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a frequently mutating retrovirus that attacks the human immune system and which has been shown to cause acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). ...
Finally, the song "You'll See" occurs after the titular piece "Rent" in the movie version, while it appears after "Today 4 U" in the musical. This is because Chris Columbus wanted Benny to be involved in the story earlier.
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In addition to four deleted scenes, the movie includes an alternate ending, showing all the main characters except Angel standing in the positions where they were during the "Seasons of Love" opening. Before the song ends, Angel enters, not in drag, and walks into his place.
Soundtrack The 2-disc soundtrack, containing 28 tracks, was produced by Rob Cavallo and released on September 27 2005. This version of the soundtrack was originally packaged in eight different slipcovers, each featuring one of the eight most prominent characters in the film. The first single, "Seasons of Love," was released exclusively on the iTunes Music Store on August 2 2005; a music video was released on Apple's QuickTime website the same day. Rob Cavallo is a music producer who has produced several well-known albums. ...
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- "Seasons of Love" (#33 US) - Joanne, Collins & Cast of RENT
- "Rent" - Mark, Roger, Collins, Benny & Tenants (including Mimi and Angel)
- "You'll See" - Roger, Mark & Benny
- "One Song Glory" - Roger
- "Light My Candle" - Roger & Mimi
- "Today 4 U" - Collins, Angel & Mark
- "Tango: Maureen" - Joanne and Mark
- "Life Support" - Gordon, Roger, Steve & Cast of RENT
- "Out Tonight" - Mimi
- "Another Day" - Roger, Mimi, Collins, Mark & Angel
- "Will I?" - Steve, Gordon & Cast of RENT
- "Santa Fe" - Roger, Mark, Angel & Collins
- "I'll Cover You" - Angel & Collins
- "Over The Moon" - Maureen (sung live on film by Idina Menzel [Maureen] and is a different take than was used in the movie.)
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- "La Vie Boheme" * - Cast of RENT
- "I Should Tell You" - Roger & Mimi
- "La Vie Boheme B" * - Mimi, Mark, Angel, Collins, Maureen, Joanne & Roger
- "Seasons of Love B" - Cast of RENT
- "Take Me Or Leave Me" - Maureen & Joanne
- "Without You" - Maureen, Joanne, Mimi & Roger
- "I'll Cover You (Reprise)" - Collins, Joanne & Cast of RENT
- "Halloween" - Mark (cut from the film; included on the DVD as a deleted scene)
- "Goodbye Love" * - Mimi, Roger, Benny, Maureen, Joanne, Mark & Collins (Cut from film after the line 'I can't believe this is goodbye'; included on the DVD as a deleted scene)
- "What You Own" - Roger & Mark
- "Finale A" - Mimi & Roger
- "Your Eyes" - Roger
- "Finale B* " - Cast of RENT
- "Love Heals" - Cast of RENT (bonus track on the soundtrack which didn't appear in the film or Broadway play.)
La Vie Bohème (French: the Bohemian life) is a song in the musical Rent. ...
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La Vie Boheme B (French: the bohemian life) is a song in the musical RENT. This is the second part of this song (the first is La Vie Boheme)and it ends the first act of the show. ...
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Finale B is a song from the rock opera Rent. ...
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Notes - On Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart for the week ending August 20, 2005, "Seasons of Love" debuted at #68.
- "La Vie Boheme A" and "La Vie Boheme B" are joined together on the highlights album.
- Notes on the bonus track Love Heals (taken from the CD case booklet of "RENT: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack"):
- Jonathan [Larson] wrote LOVE HEALS while working on RENT, to help in the efforts of Love Heals — the Alison Gertz Foundation for AIDS education. Alison was one of the first heterosexual women to contract AIDS from a "one night stand." He wanted to help her and the organization in the best way he could: with music. Although not written for RENT, we have included this bonus track as a tribute to Jonathan and to help further the cause of AI education.
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Musicians - Tim Pierce (acoustic guitar, electric guitar)
- Greg Suran (acoustic guitar, electric guitar)
- Suzie Katayama (cello, accordion)
- Jamie Muhoberac (piano, organ, keyboards)
- Tim Weil (piano)
- Gregory Curtis (organ)
- Paul Bushnell (bass guitar)
- Dorian Crozier (drums, percussion, programming)
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Jamie Muhoberac is a session keyboardist with numerous credits, including with Fleetwood Mac, The Rolling Stones (Bridges to Babylon), Backstreet Boys, Aly & AJ, Bob Dylan, Goo Goo Dolls, Chris Cornell (Carry On), My Chemical Romance, Carmen Rizzo and Pet Shop Boys. ...
Track listing Seasons of Love: - Seasons of Love (Gomi's Liar Radio Mix)
- Seasons of Love (Monkey Bars Remix)
- Seasons of Love (L.E.X. Theatrical Club Mix)
- Seasons of Love (Eddie Baez's "Payin' the Rent" Club Mix)
Note: The Maxi Single contains the radio and club mixes for all for versions
Track listing CD - Take Me or Leave Me (Tracy Young Radio)
- Take Me or Leave Me (Tracy Young Remix)
- Take Me or Leave Me (Gabriel D Vine's Big Band Disco Remix)
- Take Me or Leave Me (Jackie and Jorio Club Mix)
- Take Me or Leave Me (Tracy Young Dub)
- Out Tonight (Mark!'s Redux Club Remix)
- Light My Candle (Monkey Bars Remix)
Interviews
References - ^ http://www.filminamerica.com/Movies/Rent/
- ^ Box Office Mojo for Rent
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0294870/goofs
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- "Seasons of Love" Music Video
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