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Actors: Anthony Rapp, Adam Pascal, Rosario Dawson, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Taye Diggs, Idina Menzel
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Rent |
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This movie, based on Jonathan Larson's musical, was directed by Chris Columbus in 2005.
The main setting of the film is a building of Avenue A in NYC. A group of friends lives in community there and tries to forget the threats of their landlord to whom they haven't paid any rent for months now. Mark Cohen is a film director making a documentary about the neighborhood. Roger Davis, a former drug addict, tries to write the song which will make him famous before he dies from AIDS.
One evening, their friend Tom Collins returns to their apartment after a 7 months absence. He is accompanied by Angel, a cross-dresser also suffering from AIDS. Mark agrees to help his ex-girl-friend Maureen, who dumped him a few weeks before in order to start a lesbian affair with Joanna, to sort out the technical problems of her next concert. Meanwhile, Roger refuses to start a love affair with his neighbour Mimi Marquez, a club dancer, who also tested HIV positive. These stories happen in an atmosphere of shared poverty in which love and friendship are more important than money and success. A few months later, Angel dies from AIDS and Roger decides to leave NYC for a while to go to New Mexico. When he comes back to Avenue A at the end of the year, with his song, Mimi disappears. She is found a few days later, feverish and almost starved to death.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Rent |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Kind of sex:
- Two guys MAKING OUT (squish squish!)
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- producer/director
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- red
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) very skinny
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Jewish
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (man) long girliemon hair
Body type
- (man) average build
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Hair color
- bald
Hair type
- (man) bald
Body type
- (man) average
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Misc setting
- bar
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- depressed/sad
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- lesbians!
If lots of song/dance...
- lot of singing
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Modern rock/pop
Is this movie based on a
- play
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