Rent
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Release Date: Wednesday, November 23rd 2005,
Jonathan Larson's popular rock opera Rent, based on Puccini's opera La Boheme, has been rewritten for the big screen. Rent is one of the longest running shows on Broadway, and has won numerous awards including the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
The film is the tale of a group of bohemians who struggle paying rent as artists in New York's East Village while overcoming poverty, illness, and AIDS.
A number of the members from the original Broadway cast are apearing in the film, including Idina Menzel (Maureen), Jesse L. Martin (Tom Collins), Adam Pascal (Roger), Anthony Rapp (Mark), and Wilson Heredia (Angel).
Director: Chris Columbus
Cast:
Taye Diggs,
Wilson Jermaine Heredia,
Jesse L. Martin,
Adam Pascal,
Anthony Rapp,
Idina Menzel,
Tracie Thoms,
Rosario Dawson,
Casey Dacanay,
Matthew Dickens,
Cory DuVal,
Larry Feurzeig,
David Fine,
Richard Goldman,
Gordon Hart,
Kenneth Hughes,
Scot James,
Kevin Jaskela,
Aaron Lohr,
Daniel London,
Corey Rosen,
Allen Theosky Rowe,
Jeffrey Sherrard,
Stewart Summers,
James D. Weston II,
Wayne Wilcox,
Dustin Wilkinson,
Jordi Caballero,
Darryl Chan,
Ken Clark,
Mackenzie Firgens,
Terri J. Freedman,
Shani Haller,
Diana Lee Inosanto,
Jessica Leigh Johnson,
Heather Barberie,
Bianca Sams,
Jennifer Siebel,
Sarah Silverman,
Sierra Doherty Gillin
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