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Rent (2005) is available on Kanopy with a participating library card.
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You can watch Rent (2005) on Kanopy with a participating library card.
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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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) on Kanopy with a participating library card.
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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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Watch Rent on Kanopy with a participating library card. Availability last verified October 4, 2026.