Anthony Rapp,
Adam Pascal,
Rosario Dawson,
Jesse L. Martin,
Wilson Jermaine Heredia
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This film adaptation of the Broadway musical based loosely on Puccini's opera La Bohème features many members of the original cast. It follows a year in the lives of seven friends living the disappear... read more
Directed by: Chris Columbus
Release Date: November 23, 2005
Keywords:
touching,
musical,
original cast,
broadway cast,
rosario dawson,
original broadway,
New York ,
Rosario Dawson ,
Chris Columbus ,
Jonathan Larson
DVD Release Date: February 21, 2006
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August 8, 2011RENT is, all in all, truly lovable. I listened to the soundtrack to the Broadway musical after I watched this, and I realized immediately that a good chunk of the music was cut out and transformed into dialogue (i.e. the argument at the café which ends in the waiter telling Mark... read more
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August 9, 2010In trying to let the classic songs and the classic story speak for themselves, Chris Columbus' direction comes off as totally uninspired and boring. Despite this the movie succeeds because the songs are classic and so is the touching and timeless story. The actors are all too old... read more
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September 9, 2009Well....The music is good...I can't deny that...but I don't know...I didn't care to much for the story...there wasn't ant development
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February 25, 2009Very good controversial musical. It was definetely not what I expected. I usually wouldn't watch something with this much content but the music and the friends in this movie made it a very excellant movie!
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February 18, 2008I enjoyed it, now I want to see the real thing. I love Jesse L. Martin even more than I did before.
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January 2, 2008although the music was pretty good and a few of the performances were solid, this film was an overall dissapointment. the plot was scattered and unclear and the story was told in fast forward. bravo for attempting to tackle tough subjects, but contraversy doesnt automatically m... read more
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June 21, 2007The opening song was really catchy, but then I lost interest. Some musicals just don't grab me.
Critic Reviews
December 21, 2005
Rex Reed, New York Observer
December 8, 2005
David Edelstein, Slate
It's real -- and, on screen, it's really cringe-worthy. Not quite Phantom of the Opera cringe-worthy, but not as much fun to blow raspberries at, either. Full Review
November 29, 2005
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
The film captures the beautiful spirit and the raw energy of Larson's play, and it respects the wonderful, gorgeous, life-affirming music. Full Review
November 28, 2005
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
RENT is mediocre and recommended only to those who can claim a familiarity with the play. Full Review
November 28, 2005
Houston Chronicle
A mediocre, unimaginative, inefficient filmmaker, Columbus delivers a Rent that isn't so much bad as perfunctory.
November 28, 2005
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
As directed by Columbus, Jonathan Larson's East Village reworking of 'La Boheme' in the age of AIDS retains its calisthenic pathos, as well as most of its original cast, but you'd have to be a real Re... Full Review
November 23, 2005
Susan Walker, Toronto Star
Director Chris Columbus has done what any smart filmmaker would do with a musical and let the songs dictate his movie. Full Review
November 23, 2005
Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News
The scourge of rock-opera, a musical mutation that manages to combine the least savory elements of both with the advantages of neither. Full Review
November 23, 2005
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle
If nothing else, the movie reveals Jonathan Larson's musical to be an illuminating time capsule of a wild period immediately before and after the scourge of AIDS. Full Review
November 23, 2005
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
In terms of its music and lyrics Rent flickers more than it flames.
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