2021 · 115 min · Drama, Music
tick, tick... BOOM! is Lin-Manuel Miranda's directorial debut — a passionate adaptation of Jonathan Larson's autobiographical musical about a 29-year-old composer racing against time and self-doubt to write his masterpiece. Andrew Garfield gives a magnetic, Tony-level performance as Larson, who would go on to write Rent before dying suddenly in 1996. A love letter to artistic obsession and the New York theater world.
tick, tick... BOOM! streams on Netflix.
Yes. The film is based on Jonathan Larson's semi-autobiographical musical. Larson was a real composer who wrote Rent and died of an aortic aneurysm on January 25, 1996 — the morning of Rent's first off-Broadway performance.
Andrew Garfield plays Jonathan Larson. His performance — including all his own singing — was widely acclaimed and earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
No. tick, tick... BOOM! is a prequel set years before Rent and stands completely on its own. It follows Larson while he was still working on an earlier musical called Superbia. Knowledge of Rent adds emotional resonance to the ending but isn't required.
The film runs approximately 115 minutes.