# Rent (2005)

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**Runtime**: 135 min
**Genres**: Drama, Romance
**Directed by**: Chris Columbus
**Written by**: Stephen Chbosky
**Starring**: Anthony Rapp, Adam Pascal, Rosario Dawson, Jesse L. Martin, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Idina Menzel

> *No day but today.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

New York’s East Village becomes a cramped clinic-cum-living-room where rent is due but dreams are optional. The story follows seven friends clinging to art and each other as their bodies and bank accounts run low. It’s a squeaky-clean musical that somehow forgot to take its own medicine.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, cozy

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