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Release Date: November 23, 2005
On DVD: February 21, 2006
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Chris Columbus
Writer: Chris Columbus, Stephen Chbosky
Cast: Rosario Dawson, Taye Diggs, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Jesse L. Martin, Idina Menzel, Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp, Tracie Thoms
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Official site: sonypictures.com/movies/rent
Running Time: 135 minutes
MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for mature thematic material involving drugs and sexuality, and for some strong language

Based on Puccini's classic opera La Boheme, Jonathan Larson's revolutionary rock opera "Rent" tells the story of a group of Bohemians struggling to live and pay their rent in the gritty background of New York's East Village. "Measuring their lives in love," these starving artists strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, ilness and the AIDS epidemic. One of the longest running shows on Broadway, "Rent" was the winner of the...

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