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Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway (2008) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 2008 · 165 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Michael John Warren
- Starring
- Tracie Thoms, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Will Chase, Anthony Rapp, Eden Espinosa, Rodney Hicks
The filmed capture of Rent’s final Broadway performance brings the iconic rock‑opera to life. Set in New York’s gritty East Village, it follows a circle of bohemian friends striving to make ends meet and keep their rent afloat. Their lives are measured in love as they confront poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic while chasing artistic success and acceptance.
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