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Screen Scene

Friday, November 25, 2005

Nine years since the Broadway musical "Rent" debuted -- which is "Five hundred twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes" times nine -- Hollywood has finally turned it into a movie. "Rent" follows the year in the life of eight friends living a Bohemian existence in New York's East Village, where they sing and dance about HIV, love-gone-wrong and a general lack of funds.

Also opening in area theaters is "Yours, Mine and Ours," a remake of the 1968 comedy which now stars Dennis Quaid and Rene Russo in the tale of a widower with eight kids who marries a widow with ten.

"The Ice Harvest" becomes yet another in a long line of movies set in Kansas but filmed elsewhere. John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton team up in Wichita to rip off mobsters in this dark comedy.

A club DJ played by pop star Usher saves the life of a Mafia princess in the "Romeo and Juliet" wannabe "In the Mix." In "Just Friends," Ryan Reynolds plays a former overweight loser now a handsome record executive who returns to his hometown to reconnect with his high school crush.

And at the art house, "Pride & Prejudice" is the latest version of Jane Austen's most frequently filmed novel. In this take, Keira Knightley stars as Lizzie and Matthew MacFadyen as Darcy.

Plenty of movies to choose from this weekend. I'm Jon Niccum with Screen Scene.

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