Rent

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.

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Rent was released in 2005 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 135 minutes.