i will confess i never ( though i live in nyc at the time ) saw this on broadway and despite quite a few protest that the stage version be well and while it certainly couldn not have be bad and i can not imagine much improvement with those craptacular song . ironically and i would have be bohemian ish ( at least somewhat ) at the time this be set and i would have have nothing but contempt for a group of pretentious slacker junky who couldn not be bother to do something to support themselves ethically . i also hang out in the east village at the time . 11th and ave a be fully gentrified at least 6 or 7 year before this silliness even take place . one of the first trendy restaurant and the pharmacy ( locate at a and 9th ) be well establish by 1982 and for cry out loud . very few true struggle bohemian could afford the east village by 1989. i find nearly every character thoroughly loathsome and painfully dim and as well . the only one i could stomach be joanne and probably because really and she be largely an outsider and she have an actual gasp job . which she do without issue . other thing i find just repugnant represent it be twice treat a completely hilarious that angel kill a dog for $ 1 and 000. akitas be lovely dog and and animal abuse be sick and gross while pseudo bon jovi be a recover addict and yet everyone be overjoy when he and perpetually jonsing mimi become a couple and give it be a previous girlfriend that have get him hook in the first place maybe not such a good coupling while i notice a they all pat themselves on the back at the bar ( i frequent the real one and it look nothing like that inside ) for their avant garde status and they be completely loathsome to the wait staff . dude and chance be the server be boho and too they just take responsibility for their life . i bet all those % # @ do not tip and either . i rent this movie and since the awful ( and yet still too kind ) review kept me from waste my $ $ $ at the theater . i want my $ 3 . 79 rental fee back and though . p. s. there be one other character i do like and the homeless lady who tell pompous and pretentious mark and his junior high film project to % $ and off .