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Rent (2005) is available to watch for free on Kanopy. Also available to rent on Apple TV+.
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You can watch Rent (2005) for free on Kanopy, rent on Apple TV+, or buy on Apple TV+.
In New York City's gritty East Village, a group of bohemians strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic.
Electric, defiant energy pulses through every cramped East Village apartment and crowded stage. This jukebox musical captures the frantic, heartbreaking beauty of living life at full volume despite the shadow of a plague.
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Director
Chris Columbus
Cast
Anthony Rapp, Adam Pascal, Rosario Dawson, Jesse L. Martin, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Idina Menzel, Tracie Thoms, Taye Diggs, Julia Roth, Porscha Radcliffe
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You can watch Rent (2005) for free on Kanopy, rent on Apple TV+, or buy on Apple TV+.
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Director
Chris Columbus
Cast
Anthony Rapp, Adam Pascal, Rosario Dawson, Jesse L. Martin, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Idina Menzel, Tracie Thoms, Taye Diggs, Julia Roth, Porscha Radcliffe
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