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1* "I'll Cover You." Heck, Angel and Collins' relationship is so damn heartwarming in general.
2** "I'll Cover You (Reprise)" is equally heartwarming and a TearJerker considering it's Angel's funeral, and Collins is singing back the promises he and Angel had made to each other.
3* The part of Mimi's energetic, celebratory "Out Tonight" in which she stops and sits, and sings about just why she just can't stay still "in the city of neon and chrome."
4* "Finale B."
5** "I'd die without you... ''I'd die without you''!"
6* Roger ''finally'' leaving the house in "Will I?", and Collins and Angel throwing their arms around him as he joins in.
7* Collins has a sort of BigBrotherInstinct toward Roger the entire movie (and in the play, to an extent.) He teases him for how shy he's being when Collins arrives, encourages him to come to Life Support, hugs him and holds onto his shoulders when he finally leaves the apartment, tells him [[SoProudOfYou he's proud of him for attending]], and then, on the subway, when he notices that Roger isn't participating, he deliberately calls attention to him multiple times until he joins in the song.
8* Mimi trying to convince Roger to let go in "Another Day."
9-->"There is no future, there is not past. I live this moment as my last."
10* From "What You Own", as Roger comes back to New York, comes this little gem:
11-->"And when you're dying in America/At the end of the millennium.../[[YouAreNotAlone You're not alone]]/I'm not alone/I'm not alone."
12** Followed by Roger and Mark embracing. N'awwww.
13** Well, they embrace in the film. In the original musical they're not supposed to actually see each other as they're not actually in the same location, just on the same line of thought.
14* In the film, Joanne doesn't just encourage Mark to take the job at Buzzline. She accompanies him as his lawyer to negotiate fair pay for him for his footage. When Buzzline offers 3000 per video on commission with higher pay based on performance. Mark is visibly touched, while Maureen annoys them both by flirting with the secretary.
15%%* "Seasons Of Love" says it all.
16* The ending (alternate ending in the film), where everyone returns to the "Seasons of Love" lineup to sing the musical to a close...Including Angel, who pauses to hold hands with Collins before standing beneath his previously empty spotlight. Words fail to do it justice.
17* The ending of ''Theatre/{{RENT}}'' is as [[TearJerker tear-jerking]] as it is inspiring and warming and meaningful. "No day but today."
18** ''"Life goes on, but I'm gone, 'cause I die without you... I die without you..."'' After everything that the group's been through, they still manage to forgive whatever flaws they have, and it shows with how damn ''awesome'' this song is.
19* While everyone's usually too busy [[TearJerker crying their eyes out]] at Angel's funeral, the speeches given by Mimi, Mark, and Maureen are just so perfect, especially Maureen's final line:
20-->''You always said how lucky you were that we were all friends. But it was us, baby. We were the lucky ones.''
21* [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Benny]] paying for Angel's funeral and going to get drunk with Collins. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaCzrecskjo Even better in the movie]], which makes it all the more maddening that that scene was cut.
22* Mark's anecdote about Angel at her funeral about a time she helped out a bunch of lost and nervous tourists.
23!! 2019 Fox Production
24* During "La Vie Boheme", part of it's been changed from the "in honor of the death of Bohemia", to a much more cheerful and positive "the mythical land of Bohemia, once believed to be dead, is now showing shocking signs of life!"
25** They also change everyone's parts of it, giving everyone titles for the land of Bohemia, the best of which is Angel's:
26--->'''Collins:''' Angel Dumott Schunard takes her rightful place as queen of all she survey and beacon of hope in the darkest of days!
27* In most productions, Angel gets a LonelyFuneral with only the cast and her parents possibly attending. Here, the entire Life Support and even Mimi's regular drug dealer come to pay their respects.
28* Benny comes back in the end, just in time to see Mimi revived. He reunites in the TriumphantReprise of "No Day But Today".
29* Mark's film shown during "Finale B" switching to a loving tribute to Jonathan Larson and the legacy he left behind.

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