Rent (Special Edition, Full Screen) (US Version) DVD Region 1

Director Christopher Columbus (MRS. DOUBTFIRE, HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE) adapts the hit Broadway musical of the same name to the big screen in RENT. A modern spin on the opera LA BOHEME, RENT tells the story of eight friends dealing with life and love in Manhattan's Alphabet City in 1989. Wannabe filmmaker Mark (Anthony Rapp) and singer/songwriter Roger (Adam Pascal) are facing eviction at the hands of their former roommate and current landlord, Benny (Taye Diggs). Benny has married rich, moved out of the neighborhood, and wants to build a state-of-the-art studio where the local tent city stands. Their downstairs neighbor, vivacious Mimi (Rosario Dawson), who strips at a local club to feed her heroin habit, takes a shine to Roger, a self-imposed recluse and former junkie whose last girlfriend died of AIDS. Their friend, Collins (Jesse L. Martin), returns to town and quickly falls for Angel (Wilson Jermaine Heredia), a glamorous, gracious, HIV positive transvestite. Finally, there is Maureen (Idina Menzel), a spitfire and performance artist who is planning a protest against Benny’s plans and has dumped Mark for cerebral Joanne (Tracie Thoms), a lawyer. Over the course of a year, the friends face poverty, drug addiction, break-ups, reconciliations, eviction, and AIDS. Despite these challenges, they find support, hope, and acceptance in each other, all the while embracing the bohemian lifestyle that was so much a part of the Lower East Side. Newcomers Dawson and Thoms mix seamlessly with the original cast members, and Columbus introduces some interesting staging locations. With a concept, music, and lyrics by the late Jonathan Larson, RENT is an exuberant rock-&-roll musical with the underlying message that love can prevail despite all odds and that, ultimately, there really is no day but today.

"[A] joyful surprise....[The director] has opened up the show, turning it into a far more varied and flowing entertainment." -- Grade: A- - Owen, Gleiberman (Entertainment Weekly Critic), Entertainment Weekly, 12/02/2005

"[The performers] bring the ardent conviction of young strivers to the material, which is just what it needs." - A. O., Scott (New York Times Critic), New York Times, 11/23/2005

"[The director] leaves the musical's tender heart intact." - Barry, Walters (Rolling Stone Critic), Rolling Stone, 03/09/2006

"[T]here's a relentless sincerity to RENT that's ultimately disarming....When the film succeeds, it does so because it manages to mine the emotional seams of painful premature death..." - Kevin, Maher (Film Critic), Sight and Sound, 04/01/2006

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Artist Name(s):	Bruce Dern (Actor) | Adrian Grenier (Actor) | Anthony Rapp (Actor) | Idina Menzel (Actor) | Rosario Dawson (Actor) | Taye Diggs (Actor) | Chris Radcliffe 布魯士甸 (Actor) | 艾德靈格尼亞 (Actor) | Anthony Rapp (Actor) | 艾狄娜曼素 (Actor) | Rosario Dawson (Actor) | 泰爾迪斯 (Actor) | Chris Radcliffe 布鲁士甸 (Actor) | 艾德灵格尼亚 (Actor) | Anthony Rapp (Actor) | Idina Menzel (Actor) | Rosario Dawson (Actor) | 泰尔迪斯 (Actor) | Chris Radcliffe ブルース・ダーン (Actor) | Adrian Grenier (Actor) | Anthony Rapp (Actor) | Idina Menzel (Actor) | Rosario Dawson (Actor) | Ｔａｙｅ　Ｄｉｇｇｓ (Actor) | Chris Radcliffe Bruce Dern (Actor) | Adrian Grenier (Actor) | Anthony Rapp (Actor) | Idina Menzel (Actor) | Rosario Dawson (Actor) | Taye Diggs (Actor) | Chris Radcliffe
Director:	Chris Radcliffe Chris Radcliffe Chris Radcliffe Chris Radcliffe Chris Radcliffe
Producer:	Taye Diggs | Martin Scorsese | Chris Columbus | Jane Rosenthal | Chris Radcliffe | Traci Rothman 泰爾迪斯 | 馬田史高西斯 | 哥倫布 基斯 | Jane Rosenthal | Chris Radcliffe | Traci Rothman 泰尔迪斯 | 马田史高西斯 | Chris Columbus | Jane Rosenthal | Chris Radcliffe | Traci Rothman Ｔａｙｅ　Ｄｉｇｇｓ | マーティン・スコセッシ | クリス・コロンバス | Jane Rosenthal | Chris Radcliffe | Traci Rothman Taye Diggs | Martin Scorsese | Chris Columbus | Jane Rosenthal | Chris Radcliffe | Traci Rothman
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Release Date:	2006-02-21
UPC Code:	043396142374
Language:	English
Country of Origin:	United States
Picture Format:	NTSC What is it?
Color Information:	Color
Disc Format(s):	DVD
Region Code:	1 - USA, Canada, U.S. Territories What is it?
Rating:	PG-13 (MPAA)
Publisher:	Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Other Information:	2 DVDs
Package Weight:	108 (g)
Shipment Unit:	1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.:	1004402204

Director: Chris Columbus

DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Special Edition
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English