 Rent
Starring: Idina Menzel, Anthony Rapp, Adam Pascal, Taye Diggs
Directed by: Chris Columbus
Screenplay by: Chris Columbus
Release Date: November 23, 2005
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for mature thematic material involving drugs and sexuality, and for strong language.
Studio: Sony Pictures
 Domestic: $29,077,547 (91.8%)
Foreign: $2,593,073 (8.2%)
Total: $31,670,620 (Worldwide)
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 Tagline: No day but today.
Jonathan Larson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning revolutionary rock opera Rent tells the story of a group of bohemians struggling to express themselves through their art and “measuring their lives in love.” Against the gritty backdrop of New York’s East Village, these friends strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic.
Rent’s diverse and unconventional community is made up of impassioned and defiant individuals. Roger (Adam Pascal) is an aspiring songwriter who has emotionally shut down after his girlfriend’s suicide. Despite his attraction, he is reluctant to start a new romance with his downstairs neighbor Mimi Marquez (Rosario Dawson), an exotic dancer struggling with “baggage of her own.”
Roger’s roommate Mark (Anthony Rapp) is a filmmaker trying to balance art and commerce. His girlfriend Maureen (Idina Menzel), a self-indulgent performance artist, recently left him for a lawyer named Joanne (Tracie Thoms). Also part of this close-knit circle is Tom Collins (Jesse L. Martin), a professor of philosophy who, after being mugged, is rescued by his soul mate, a high-spirited, street drummer, Angel Shunard (Wilson Jermaine Heredia). Benny, (Taye Diggs), who alienated his friends after he married their landlord’s daughter, has reneged on his promise to provide rent-free artist space to his bohemian friends. Once a close friend, he is now viewed as the enemy, threatening them with eviction.
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