Rent (1999)

Rent (2005): Dir: Chris Columbia / Cast: Rosario Dawson, Taye Diggs, Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp, Jesse L. Martin: Depressing yet engaging musical about survival.

The film version of the award winning Broadway musical about bohemians in New York's East Village is hampered by being almost 10 years late in bringing their struggles with life, love, and AIDS to movie audiences. Nevertheless, the music is all there, including the beautiful "Seasons of Love.

Rent is a 2005 musical drama based on the Broadway musical of the same name which came out in 1996 and features the actors who appeared on the show. The film focuses on love,sexuality,AIDs,loss as well as trying to pay for rent and addiction to drugs e.