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"Rent - The Movie: Live On Broadway"
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"Rent - The Movie: Live On Broadway" - In Theaters September 24, 2008

"Rent - The Movie: Live On Broadway" - 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.

Inspired by Puccini’s classic opera “La Boheme,” “Rent” won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Obie Award, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, four Tony Awards and three Drama Desk awards -- all following the tragic, untimely death of its creator, Jonathan Larson, who passed away of an aortic aneurysm on the eve of the play’s first preview. The play went on to become a phenomenal success -- launching the careers of its stars and bringing a sense of excitement back to Broadway by introducing a young and eager audience to a musical theater work that carried with it a message of hope and love.

"Rent: Filmed Live On Broadway" features the FINAL Broadway performance of the Tony winning play "Rent."

STARRING: Rosario Dawson, Taye Diggs, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Jesse L. Martin, Idina Menzel, Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp, Tracie Thoms
DIRECTOR: NA
STUDIO: Columbia Pictures
RATING: PG-13 (For language)
THEATER COUNT (Opening Weekend): TBD
RUNNING TIME: TBD
TOTAL DOMESTIC BOX OFFICE: TBD
U.S. DVD RELEASE DATE: TBD

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