Netflix has dropped the official trailer for the musical Tick, Tick... Boom! [TICKB]. Andrew Garfield stars as an aspiring theater composer having a career crisis. Lin-Manuel Miranda makes his feature directorial debut on the feature adaptation of the autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson, the creator of Rent. Tick, Tick... Boom! will open in select theaters on November 12th before hitting Netflix on November 19th.
The film follows Jon (Andrew Garfield), a young theater composer who’s waiting tables at a New York City diner in 1990 while writing what he hopes will be the next great American musical. Days before he’s due to showcase his work in a make-or-break performance, Jon is feeling the pressure from everywhere: from his girlfriend Susan, who dreams of an artistic life beyond New York City; from his friend Michael, who has moved on from his dream to a life of financial security; amidst an artistic community being ravaged by the AIDS epidemic. With the clock ticking, Jon is at a crossroads and faces the question everyone must reckon with: What are we meant to do with the time we have?
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