Rent

Rent is a musical that is about people living in poverty in the city. They struggle with drugs, paying rent, and AIDS. A group of friends form a strong bond and keep each other going and alive. The people who are wealthy and own the buildings were not lenient on those who could not pay their rents and just kicked people out. They did not care about the person, they just wanted their money. Drugs were a problem in the movie, as they are in today’s world. A young girl, Mimi struggles with drugs through the whole movie; she tries to stop a few times, but keeps going back to them. She is in a relationship with someone, Roger, who had struggled with drugs and each time she goes back to them he leaves her. There is an AIDS group that meets in the movie and a few of them die. The friends meet with the AIDS group, even though they do not all have AIDS. The group gets through their hard lives together and depends on each other.
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After one of the friends, Angel, dies of AIDS the group seems to be breaking up. Roger leaves all together and leaves Mimi to battle drugs alone. One of the friends has a job now filming news stories and is making money. However, they are all still battling with poverty. In the end, Roger comes back only to find that Mimi is missing. All of the friends get together again to search for her and they eventually find her in a park. She is dying from a drug overdose. Roger sings a song for her and tells her that he loves her, but she dies. They are all devastated, but then she comes back and says that she followed the light and saw Angel who told her to listen to song and that she shouldn’t leave him. The friend who got a job filming news stories has been working on a documentary about poverty the whole time and he has finished it and they all watch it.