Watching rented movie on a macbook air

I rented a movie on my new macbook air. It showed that it was downloading and eventually finished. Now I can't find it anywhere. How can I watch my rented movie? Note that I want to watvh on the notebook not an iPad.thanks

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    Now every now and then a automatic password prompt kicks in overlaying the movie, so I have to stand up each time and type in the administrator password in the middle of the movie. This happens maybe about every 30-45 mins. Needless to say this is extremely unpleasant when watching a movie. Unfortunately I cannot tell you which programm causes the prompt since I always close all other programms other than iTunes.
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    expresslane.apple.com
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