Why would my rental of 'midnight in Paris' stop every few minutes?

Downloaded 'midnight in Paris' last night. It took over 3 hours to watch a 93 minute movire. I thought the film had downloaded when it began to play, but it kept stopping every few minutes.

I think the other devices are fine. I'm not sure. It usually only happens like a couple days out of the week. I do know that the network I'm using when I click on the wifi symbol at the top of my screen doesn't have a padlock on it. It IS MY network that is at my house, but maybe that has something to do with it.

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