RENT

Year: 2005
USA: Columbia Pictures
UK: Sony Pictures Releasing
Cast: Rosario Dawson, Taye Diggs, Jesse L Martin, Wilson Heredia, Idina Menzel, Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp, Tracie Thoms, Heather Barberie, Liisa Cohen, Mackenzie Firgens , Jason Thornton, Wayne Wilcox, Aaron Lohr, Daniel London, Bianca Sams, Jennifer Siebel, Sarah Silverman, Doug Campbell, Brian Delate, Cory DuVal, David Fine, Jason Foster, Corey Rosen, Julia Roth, Ian Baptiste, Kevin Alexander Stea, Jessica Vallot
Director: Chris Columbus
Country: USA
USA & UK: 135 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for mature thematic material involving drugs and sexuality, and for some strong language
UK Certificate: 12A contains strong language and drugs references
USA Release Date: 23 November 2005
UK Release Date: 7 April 2006

Synopsis

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, illness and the AIDS epidemic.

One of the longest running shows on Broadway, Rent was the winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Obie Award, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, four Tony Awards and three Drama Desk Awards.