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Rent, Sony Pictures ; The Hot Ticket presents ; a @radical.media production ; book, music & lyrics by Jonathan Larson ; directed by Michael John Warren ; produced by Jon Kamen and Justin Wilkes

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videorecording

MPAA Rating: Not rated ; Canadian Home Video Rating: PG

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Sony Pictures ; The Hot Ticket presents ; a @radical.media production ; book, music & lyrics by Jonathan Larson ; directed by Michael John Warren ; produced by Jon Kamen and Justin Wilkes

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This film captures the last Broadway performance of the long running rock musical RENT. Loosely based on Puccini's opera "La Bohème, " it tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side in the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. Roommates, friends, lovers, at times enemies, the struggles of documentary filmmaker Mark, musician Roger, dancer Mimi, performance artist Maureen, public interest lawyer Joanne, teacher/anarchist Tom Collins and his drag queen lover Angel, with their sell-out landlord Benjamin "Benny" Coffin III revolve around the rent. As a year unfolds, they face a host of personal trials and begin coming to terms with the limits of their aspirations and relationships

Bonus features: "Rent: the final days on Broadway" -- The final curtain call -- The wall -- The final lottery

live action

Rent filmed live on BroadwayRent filmed live on Broadway : the final performance