"FOR RENT"
Synopsis
“Everyone rents!”
To rent or not to rent is the question when Iowa transplant RACHEL MILES is challenged with only 10 days to lease a nasty, unlivable, city apartment in order to secure employment at WENDELL PROPERTIES.
FOR RENT is a quirky, romantic comedy which is unusual, bizarre, yet sweet. Centered around an odd, socially and stylistically challenged farm gal, RACHEL MILES, who is obsessed with becoming a leasing consultant since she finds other occupational endeavors like becoming a doctor, lawyer or stockbroker to be cliche. Her life long ambition is to have the ability to find people their dream rental home. "When you're at home; I'm at home," is her motto. In her own eccentric way she believes finding physical space where one is comfortable to live, allows one to find comfort in their own skin.
After being continuously rejected she finally stumbles into a rather desperate situation in which RICK WENDELL affords her an opportunity to attempt to rent out 1 apartment in 10 days. Should she successfully lease the apartment, she will be given full time employment renting out apartments with WENDELL PROPERTIES.
Living across the hall from the challenging rental is stumble bound, inventor TRENT PERKS, who is a connoisseur of words in his nervous and awkward moments. Throughout the early part of the film he woos her with home improvement gifts. Chemistry ensues when they eventually meet and he actively engages in trying to help her lease the apartment, however an extensive array of problems and obstacles make the mission to rent nearly impossible.
First and foremost is that the apartment she needs to lease is hell on earth. It's, for lack of better words, a shit hole. It's not livable or rentable. Not even the most foul roach would nest in this place!
Over the course of the story Rachel is challenged with not only the adversities of the apartment itself (dead bodies in the wall, floor board debacles, remote plumbing and electricity, slanted floors, faux views from the living room, etc.) and unfit potential renters, but her own struggle in letting go of the apartment as she renovates into quite a lovely home. As time runs out she is confronted with renting or not renting the place to "the right person." If she takes the place herself she will be sans job and if she doesn't take the place she will herself not "be at home." As a result she travels through a spectrum of emotions and growing pains which in the end have her come to terms with her own needs and desires for living space.
Chock full of wildly entertaining characters and hysterical physical comedy, Rachel's journey reveals to us the importance of finding home.
SCREENPLAY WRITTEN BY LISA FRANCE.
