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Rent (2005)

★ 6.8 · 593 ratings on TMDB

No day but today.

Rent poster★ 6.8

In New York City's gritty East Village, a group of bohemians strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic.

DirectorChris Columbus
CastAdam Pascal, Anthony Rapp, Idina Menzel, Jesse L. Martin, Julia Roth, Porscha Radcliffe
GenresDrama, Romance
The emergence reading

Rent keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

Origin: Spirits of the Past (2006)E12/E13 · Drama, Romance

Same people

Shared director or cast.

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