
This rock opera tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in modern day East Village New York. The story centers around Mark and Roger, two roommates. While a former tragedy has made Roger numb to life, Mark tries to capture it through his attempts to make a film. In the year that follows, the group deals with love, loss, AIDS, and modern day life in one truly powerful story.... (Full plot summary below)
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This rock opera tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in modern day East Village New York. The story centers around Mark and Roger, two roommates. While a former tragedy has made Roger numb to life, Mark tries to capture it through his attempts to make a film. In the year that follows, the group deals with love, loss, AIDS, and modern day life in one truly powerful story.
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| The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttOne of the best film musicals in years -- exuberant, sexy and life affirming in equal measure. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe movie is literally a series of showstoppers, unified by the impulse to turn life, at its scruffiest, into theater - into a rhapsody of the everyday. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldColumbus is a member of the '80s generation and he gives the play authenticity, the respect of a classic, an epic visual scope and a sensibility that's blissfully free of any generational self-pity. It seems to be the movie he was born to make, and he serves it well. |
| Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanIf you fell in love with the big-hearted sentimentality of Rent when you saw it onstage, the film version will remind you why. If you think Jonathan Larson's musical is ponderous agitprop, the movie won't change your view. |
| Portland OregonianShawn LevyRent isn't nearly as transporting a film as the Oscar-winning adaptation of "Chicago," but its energies and passions compensate for a lot of its deficiencies. |
| San Francisco ChronicleRuthe SteinColumbus' schizoid approach works more often than not. |
| Miami HeraldChristine DolenNow a vastly larger audience has the chance to experience the masterwork of a prodigiously talented man who died far too young. |
| Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesBut aside from a few overblown production numbers, Columbus respects the show's smaller scale, and the property itself is a knockout, with great tunes and engaging portraits of East Village bohemians in the AIDS-ravaged late 80s. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsIt's a pretty good version of a pretty great stage phenomenon. |
| Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerNow that it is at last on screen, my reaction is ... what's all the fuss? |