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A film that promises to deliver all of the gore, sex, and tawdriness of 1970s exploitation films would seem to be setting viewers up for a letdown.

“Rent,” Chris Columbus’ big-screen adaptation of Jonathan Larson’s 1996 award-winning musical of the same name, is a new-age rock epic that recounts a year – or 525,600 minutes – in the lives of a group of young New York City bohemians struggling to make ends meet through various artistic outlets.