I highly recommend you all go see this movie. It has an excellent soundtrack. One of the main characters is also transgender Angel Dumott Schunard who is well played by Wilson Jermaine Heredia. Several web pages label her character a drag queen but I think that's a misidentification. It's well done and I will be seeing it multiple times. Including tommorow with my neice and nephew. I have done a more detailed wiki page for it which you can visit at:
http://susans.org/wiki/Rent
Based on Puccini's La Boheme it cover a year in the life of a group of bohemian artists and their friends as they work, play, and love in New York's East Village. The film follows a documentary film maker named Mark and his HIV positive room mate Roger. You also meet Mark's former lover Maureen, her new girl friend a public interest lawyer named Joanne, Their neighbor HIV positive drug addict and exotic dancer Mimi, computer genius Tom Collins also HIV positive; a HIV+ street musician who's also transgender Angel, and last but not least and Benjamin Coffin III a former bohemian who has married into money and has since become the friends landlord and thus is the opposite of everything they stand for. This film shows the joy and tears, the laughter and sorrows of the friends during the 525,600 minutes that make up a year.
