Rent

Rent (2019) is the live Fox television event of Jonathan Larson's landmark Broadway musical, available to watch online on iFILM. A new cast led by Jordan Fisher, Brennin Hunt, Vanessa Hudgens, and Brandon Victor Dixon performs alongside original Broadway stars Idina Menzel, Anthony Rapp, Jesse L. Martin, and Daphne Rubin-Vega.

New York's East Village, late 1980s. A group of artists and musicians can't pay the rent, some are living with AIDS, and all of them are trying to hold onto something worth making. Mark films it. Roger writes one last song. Angel drums on tin cans and makes everyone feel less alone. They measure life in 525,600 minutes — the show's most famous question, and its truest one.

Larson built the show from Puccini's La Bohème and never saw it open — he died the night before the 1996 Broadway premiere. The live format leans into that theatre-of-the-moment quality: no second takes, just performance under pressure. Stream Rent online on iFILM.