Come as You Are Film Series: RENT

In this musical, set at the dawn of the 1990s, a group of young bohemian New Yorkers struggles with their careers, love lives, and the effects of the AIDS epidemic on their community. Mark, an aspiring filmmaker, and Roger, an HIV-positive musician, scramble for money to pay rent to their landlord and former roommate, Benny. Meanwhile, their friend Tom, a professor, has fallen for Angel, who is slowly dying of AIDS.