Rent is coming out today!
So in honor of the movie (and for elvensapphire), I present a huge picspam of the movie.
What is the plot? It's a story of a group of young bohemians struggling to get through life in New York’s East Village circa 1989. We quickly learn would-be filmmaker Mark (Anthony Rapp) is still moping over the end of his relationship with Maureen (Idina Menzel). Meanwhile performance artist Maureen has definitely moved on to other interests - she’s now dating a female attorney named Joanne (Tracie Thoms).
Roger (Adam Pascal), Mark’s roommate, is a guitar-playing hunk whose junkie girlfriend passed away from AIDS but not before infecting him with the disease. Exotic dancer Mimi (Rosario Dawson) has a thing for her upstairs neighbor, Roger, but he’s emotionally unavailable. It’s not until she reveals that she too is HIV-positive that their relationship heats up.
Tom Collins (Jesse L Martin) is a former professor who returns to the East Village and finds the love of his life, a drag queen appropriately named Angel (Wilson Jermaine Heredia) who rescues him after he’s mugged and left bleeding in an alley outside Mark and Roger’s apartment.
Former friend Benny Coffin (Taye Diggs) has now joined the establishment by marrying into money. His wife’s family owns the apartment building Roger, Mark and Mimi live in along with the rest of the street. It’s Benny’s demand for the payment of rent that sets the story in motion.
Oh, and it's based on La Boheme. I have never seen the play, but I have always been interested in re-interpretations. This might not boast the amazing Puccini music (I saw Baz Luhrman's Broadway production of La Boheme and bawled my eyes out), but I am always interested in reinterpretations. Plus, huge kudos to Chris Columbus for retaining most of the original Broadway cast.
What is the plot? It's a story of a group of young bohemians struggling to get through life in New York’s East Village circa 1989. We quickly learn would-be filmmaker Mark (Anthony Rapp) is still moping over the end of his relationship with Maureen (Idina Menzel). Meanwhile performance artist Maureen has definitely moved on to other interests - she’s now dating a female attorney named Joanne (Tracie Thoms).
Roger (Adam Pascal), Mark’s roommate, is a guitar-playing hunk whose junkie girlfriend passed away from AIDS but not before infecting him with the disease. Exotic dancer Mimi (Rosario Dawson) has a thing for her upstairs neighbor, Roger, but he’s emotionally unavailable. It’s not until she reveals that she too is HIV-positive that their relationship heats up.
Tom Collins (Jesse L Martin) is a former professor who returns to the East Village and finds the love of his life, a drag queen appropriately named Angel (Wilson Jermaine Heredia) who rescues him after he’s mugged and left bleeding in an alley outside Mark and Roger’s apartment.
Former friend Benny Coffin (Taye Diggs) has now joined the establishment by marrying into money. His wife’s family owns the apartment building Roger, Mark and Mimi live in along with the rest of the street. It’s Benny’s demand for the payment of rent that sets the story in motion.
Oh, and it's based on La Boheme. I have never seen the play, but I have always been interested in re-interpretations. This might not boast the amazing Puccini music (I saw Baz Luhrman's Broadway production of La Boheme and bawled my eyes out), but I am always interested in reinterpretations. Plus, huge kudos to Chris Columbus for retaining most of the original Broadway cast.