Chris Columbus' lackluster adaptation of Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer-prize-winning Broadway musical, based on Puccini's
La Boheme, diminishes the impact of this powerful story about a self-made family of friends weathering a yearlong journey through life, love, drug addiction and disease. Christmas Eve, 1989: Friends Mark (Anthony Rapp), an aspiring documentarian, and rock musician Roger (Adam Pascal), a recovering addict searching for a song before he succumbs to AIDS, are living in an unheated East Village loft owned by their former roommate, Benny (Taye Diggs), now a successful real-estate developer. Benny threatens to evict them unless they can dissuade Mar...
Released:
2005
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
n/a