Rent [Blu-ray] | ![Rent [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61F%2Bk7%2BtwjL._SL500_.jpg)
| Actors: Rod Arrants, Darryl Chan, Eleanor Columbus, Clarke P.devereux, Darryl Edwards
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
List Price: $28.95
Buy New: $15.88
You Save: $13.07 (45%)
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Rating:  388 reviews
Sales Rank: 19275
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Cantonese (Subtitled), Chinese (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Korean (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 135 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.4
MPN: COLBR19508
UPC: 043396195080
EAN: 0043396195080
ASIN: B000WGYMAQ
Theatrical Release Date: November 23, 2005
Release Date: December 11, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Rent, the show that in 1996 gave voice to a Broadway generation, has finally become an energetic, passionate, and touching movie musical. Based loosely on Puccini's La Boheme, it focuses on the year in the life of a group of friends in New York's East Village--"bohemians" who live carefree lives of art, music, sex, and drugs. Well, carefree until Mark, an aspiring filmmaker (Anthony Rapp), and Roger, an aspiring songwriter (Adam Pascal), find out they owe a year's rent to Benny (Taye Diggs), a former friend who had promised them free residence when he married the landlord's daughter. Roger has also attracted the attention of his downstairs neighbor, Mimi (Rosario Dawson), while Mark's former girlfriend, Maureen (Idina Menzel), has found a new romance in a lawyer named Joanne (Tracie Thoms). Philosophy professor Tom (Jesse L. Martin) finds his soul mate in drag queen Angel (Wilson Jermaine Heredia). But because this is the late-'80s, the threat of AIDS is always present. The remarkable thing about Rent the movie is that nearly 10 years after the show debuted on Broadway, six of the eight principals return in the roles they originated. They're a bit older than would be ideal for their characters, but they do have the advantage of having learned the show directly from creator Jonathan Larson (who died of an aortic aneurysm while the show was in previews), plus they started young--we're not exactly talking Sarah Brightman and Michael Crawford here. Alongside a polished performance like Rapp's--sometimes observer-commentator, sometimes participant in two of the score's showstoppers, "The Tango Maureen" and "La Vie Boheme"--the two new additions (Thoms in place of Fredi Walker, Dawson in place of the edgier Daphne Rubin-Vega) slip comfortably into the ensemble; the pivotal Dawson makes a seductive case as Mimi when she tempts Roger in the mesmerizing "Light My Candle" or burns up the stage of the Catscratch Club in "Out Tonight." Moviegoers who have an aversion to people who break into song while walking down the street probably won't have their minds changed by Rent (even if they are singing rock songs), and the gritty subject matter and lack of big-name stars make it unlikely to cross over to general audiences the way Chicago did. But fans of musicals should find "Seasons of Love" as stirring as ever, and the show's passionate admirers--the "Rentheads"--probably couldn't have wished for a more sympathetic director than Rent fan Chris Columbus, or a more faithful representation of the show they love. --David Horiuchi
Product Description
Set in New York City's gritty East Village, the revolutionary rock opera Rent tells the story of a group of bohemians struggling to live and pay their rent. "Measuring their lives in love," these starving artists strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic. Rent is based on Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer and Tony Award winning musical, one of the longest running shows on Broadway. The raw and riveting musical stars Rosario Dawson, Taye Diggs, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Jesse L. Martin, Idina Menzel, Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp, and Tracie Thoms, and is directed by Chris Columbus.
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 Rent DVD May 1, 2009
Kathleen M. Jordan (Helena, MT)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Hi there,
I have yet to receive the Rent DVD that I paid for. The last shipping date was noted April 21st, please advise.
I have ordered from Amazon.com before but this is the first time I have not received what I purchased and I don't know how to go about dealing with this. Thank you.
 awesome April 20, 2009
Nicklas Gregurich (Grove city Pa. (Pittsburgh))
Actually I saw the movie first. I am glad. We took our mother to see it( she loves musicals) at intermission she said she was having a hard time understanding the plot. Once i explained it she was ok. I think you should se the movie first.
Let the music play April 9, 2009
Gwen Lynch
I brought this DVD for my daugther and she loved it! She had seen Rent about a million times and buying it for her was a great gift! We have seen it together a few times and I find that we break out in lines or songs from this movie at radom. I love it too!!!
Great movie, Great Seller April 5, 2009
Ritchie (Phoenix, AZ USA)
The movie was received a little later than I expected, but it was worth it, the movie was new!
I love rent! March 31, 2009
Crystal Revelation (New Jersey)
Unfortunately, I have not been able to see the show on stage...which I'm really upset about. But what some people don't realize is that we can't ALL get to the theater. I know I can't. I'm 15 and every time I begged my parents to take me, neither of them were willing to drive into NYC. Now, it has closed, but there's still the tour. All I can do is sit back and enjoy what I can and I absolutely LOVE this film. It's great! The 2nd disc offers a great documentary on Jonathan Larson and the history behind RENT as well as some deleted scenes (some of which I would like to have seen in the final cut). Steering away from my babbling, I just got to say, LA VIE BOHEME! You won't be disappointed!
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