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''Rent'' is a 2005 American musical drama film directed by Chris Columbus. It is an adaptation of the Broadway musical of the same name, in turn based on Giacomo Puccini's opera ''La bohème''. The film depicts the lives of several Bohemians and their struggles with sexuality, drugs, paying their rent, and life under the shadow of AIDS. It takes place in the East Village of New York City from 1989 to 1990. The film features six of the original Broadway cast members reprising their roles. ==Plot== On Christmas Eve, 1989, aspiring filmmaker Mark Cohen, and his roommate, Roger Davis, learn that the rent previously waived by their former friend and landlord, Benjamin “Benny” Coffin III, is due. At the same time, their former roommate Tom Collins shows up and gets mugged in an alleyway. Meanwhile, Mark and Roger meet with Benny, who tells them he plans to evict the homeless from the nearby lot and build a cyber studio in its place. He offers them free rent if they can get Maureen, Mark's ex-girlfriend, to cancel her protest against his plans, but they refuse. A street drummer, Angel, finds Collins in the alleyway and help him up. They bond once they find out they both have AIDS. Later that night, Roger, who is HIV-positive and a former drug addict, tries to compose his one last great song. He's then visited by his downstairs neighbor, Mimi, an exotic dancer and heroin addict, who flirts with him. On Christmas Day, Mark and Roger are visited by Collins and Angel (who arrives in full drag), who arrive bearing gifts. They invite Mark and Roger to attend Life Support, a local AIDS support group meeting. Roger turns them down, while Mark heads off to help fix Maureen's sound equipment for the protest. He runs into Joanne, Maureen's new girlfriend, who bonds with him as they discuss Maureen's promiscuity. Afterwards, Mark arrives, slightly late, at the Life Support meeting. That night, after Mimi finishes dancing, she returns home and flirts with Roger. Roger, whose ex-girlfriend died of HIV/AIDS, rebukes her advances and throws her out. The next day, he arrives at another Life Support meeting, much to the joy of his friends. That night, after Maureen's performance starts a riot on the lot, the group celebrate the bohemian lifestyle at the Life Café. On New Years Day, the group finds that Benny has had them padlocked from their apartment, but Angel solves the problem by breaking the lock with a garbage can. To support himself, Mark takes a job at Buzzline. After another fight, Maureen proposes to Joanne; the relationship quickly ends when Maureen flirts with another woman at the engagement party. After being persuaded by Mimi, his ex-girlfriend, Benny gives the group back their apartment. Over the following year, Roger quickly grows distrustful of Mimi, and their relationship ends. Meanwhile, Angel's condition gets worse and she dies in Collins' arms. At Angel's funeral, the group goes their separate ways after a bitter argument. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rent (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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