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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: PG-13
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 15 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 21, 2006
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp & Rosario Dawson | |
Performer: | Taye Diggs, Jesse L. Martin, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Tracie Thoms & Idina Menzel | |
Directed by | Chris Columbus | |
Edited by | Richard Pearson | |
Screenplay by | Stephen Chbosky | |
Original story by | Jonathan Larson | |
Produced by | Michael Barnathan, Jane Rosenthal, Mark Radcliff & Chris Columbus | |
Director of Photography: | Stephen Goldblatt |
Entertainment Reviews:
High hopes, flat results.
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Associated Press
Rating: B --
Features a great deal of infectious energy and some wonderfully choreographed musical numbers
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Bowling Green Daily News
Rating: 3/4 --
Columbus' serviceable direction [makes] a solid film adaptation that should please fans of the original musical, and maybe even earn it a few new ones.
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The Dispatch (Lexington, NC)
[The director] leaves the musical's tender heart intact.
Rolling Stone
Rating: 3/10 --
film, za razliku od predstave, daleko bolje isti%u010De jednodimenzionalnost i neuvjerljivost likova
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Index.hr
Chris Columbus, who managed to suck the magic out of the first two Harry Potter films, does the same with this adaptation.
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New Statesman
The film captures the beautiful spirit and the raw energy of Larson's play, and it respects the wonderful, gorgeous, life-affirming music.
Ebert & Roeper
Product Description:
Director Christopher Columbus (MRS. DOUBTFIRE, HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE) adapts the hit Broadway musical of the same name to the big screen in RENT. A modern spin on the opera LA BOHEME, RENT tells the story of eight friends dealing with life and love in Manhattan's Alphabet City in 1989. Wannabe filmmaker Mark (Anthony Rapp) and singer/songwriter Roger (Adam Pascal) are facing eviction at the hands of their former roommate and current landlord, Benny (Taye Diggs). Benny has married rich, moved out of the neighborhood, and wants to build a state-of-the-art studio where the local tent city stands. Their downstairs neighbor, vivacious Mimi (Rosario Dawson), who strips at a local club to feed her heroin habit, takes a shine to Roger, a self-imposed recluse and former junkie whose last girlfriend died of AIDS. Their friend, Collins (Jesse L. Martin), returns to town and quickly falls for Angel (Wilson Jermaine Heredia), a glamorous, gracious, HIV positive transvestite. Finally, there is Maureen (Idina Menzel), a spitfire and performance artist who is planning a protest against Benny's plans and has dumped Mark for cerebral Joanne (Tracie Thoms), a lawyer.
Over the course of a year, the friends face poverty, drug addiction, break-ups, reconciliations, eviction, and AIDS. Despite these challenges, they find support, hope, and acceptance in each other, all the while embracing the bohemian lifestyle that was so much a part of the Lower East Side. Newcomers Dawson and Thoms mix seamlessly with the original cast members, and Columbus introduces some interesting staging locations. With a concept, music, and lyrics by the late Jonathan Larson, RENT is an exuberant rock-&-roll musical with the underlying message that love can prevail despite all odds and that, ultimately, there really is no day but today.
Over the course of a year, the friends face poverty, drug addiction, break-ups, reconciliations, eviction, and AIDS. Despite these challenges, they find support, hope, and acceptance in each other, all the while embracing the bohemian lifestyle that was so much a part of the Lower East Side. Newcomers Dawson and Thoms mix seamlessly with the original cast members, and Columbus introduces some interesting staging locations. With a concept, music, and lyrics by the late Jonathan Larson, RENT is an exuberant rock-&-roll musical with the underlying message that love can prevail despite all odds and that, ultimately, there really is no day but today.
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- Sales Rank: 125,661
- UPC: 043396111554
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