The movie could not be played

I purchased a movie on my iPad through iTunes. It worked great for a few months. Now I just get a message saying "cannot play the movie". I tried rebooting. I tried making sure that I am online and logged onto iTunes. But nothing is working.
The only thing that changed was that I did a backup on my computer.
Advice.

I purchased the movie with my iPad. But I see now that I synched it with my desktop that it is in the desktop's iTunes and playable. But it no longer shows up in the "Purchased on my iPad" list.  I can't figure out how to get it to synch with my iPad.
I do click on the file and look at the "information" and it shows the same email address that I use with both my iPad and my desktop iTunes.

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