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This is the film version of the Pulitzer and Tony Award winning musical about Bohemians in the East Village of New York City struggling with life, love and AIDS, and the impacts they have on America.
- Director: Chris Columbus
- Genre: Drama | Musical | Romance
- Tagline: Eight friends. One extraordinary year.
- Runtime: 135 minutes
Cast
Anthony Rapp : Mark Cohen
Adam Pascal : Roger Davis
Rosario Dawson : Mimi Marquez
Jesse L. Martin : Tom Collins
Wilson Jermaine Heredia : Angel Dumott Schunard
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The film’s plot is largely identical to that of the original Broadway musical, although there are several minor differences between the two resulting from the filmmakers’ decision to omit several songs from the original musical and to change some of the spoken dialogue.
After an introduction with the cast singing “Seasons of Love”, the film opens on Christmas Eve, 1989, with apartment tenants (including two friends and roommates, Mark (Anthony Rapp) and Roger (Adam Pascal) expressing their anger at suddenly being asked to pay the rent, which had previously been waived by their friend. Tom Collins (Jesse L. Martin), a former roommate of Mark’s and friend to both Mark and Roger, returns from out of town and is attacked by three men and left for dead in an alley (“Rent”). Benjamin Coffin III (Taye Diggs), also known as Benny, the landlord and former roommate of Mark, Roger, and Collins, who has married into a wealthy family, offers to give Mark and Roger free rent again if they can convince Maureen (Idina Menzel) (Mark’s ex-girlfriend) to stop her protest. The protest is to take place at Maureen’s performance space, which Benny is planning to turn into a cyber-studio (“You’ll See”). A street drummer, Angel (Wilson Jermaine Heredia), finds Collins in the alleyway and leads him away to get him cleaned up. Angel also mentions that he will soon be attending a Life Support meeting, telling Collins that he has AIDS, to which Collins simply replies, “Me too.”
Mark leaves the apartment to search for Collins. He suggests that Roger come as well so they could go to dinner afterward, but Roger replies sarcastically and stays home. He goes onto the roof and sings of his desire to write one final song before dying of AIDS (“One Song Glory”). In flashbacks, we learn that Roger was a drug addict and see his girlfriend receive her HIV-positive results. Roger returns to the loft, and a woman who lives downstairs, Mimi, enters. She flirts with him, asking for a match to light her candle. (“Light My Candle”). It is revealed that Roger’s girlfriend, April, died. Mimi is a heroin addict and an exotic dancer at the Cat Scratch Club. She drops her stash of drugs and Roger tries to hide it from her, but she distracts him and leaves triumphantly with her stash. Read more
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