Rental Family

An American actor in Tokyo struggles to find purpose until he lands an unusual gig: working for a Japanese 'rental family' agency, playing stand-in roles for strangers. As he immerses himself in his clients' worlds, he begins to form genuine bonds that blur the lines between performance and reality.

Cast

Brendan Fraser

as Phillip Vanderploeg

Takehiro Hira

as Shinji Tada

Mari Yamamoto

as Aiko Nakajima

Shannon Mahina Gorman

as Mia Kawasaki

Akira Emoto

as Kikuo Hasegawa

Bun Kimura

as Kota Nakano

Tamae Ando

as Lola

Misato Morita

as Yoshie Ikeda

Shinji Ozeki

as Casting Director

Shino Shinozaki

as Hitomi Kawasaki

Reviews

Brent Marchant

Forging personal connections can be difficult enough these days, even in casual circumstances. But what happens when we require someone to play a vital role for a pressing need and no one is available to stand in? That’s when it may be time to place a call to Rental Family, a Tokyo-based company tha...

justtoday1992

I can't wait to watch this movie. It says its already out November 20th but I still can't watch it on here or any server. Will it br up soon?...

Nick

**Good vibes, missed opportunities** Rental Family delivers sweetness with Brendan Fraser charm, but stumbles in its depths Fraser remains the MVP—his gentle giant presence and expressive vulnerability carry this film through its overly sentimental beats. Critics are right that his performance...

CinemaSerf

My, how Brendan Fraser has come on since his beefcake gardener days of “Gods and Monsters” (1998). Move on a quarter of a century and he’s “Philip”. A struggling American actor trying to make a living in Japan. He’s fluent, but thus far his success has been limited to a toothpaste advertising campai...

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