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Rental Family

Rental Family

7.8/ 10

TMDB Rating

666

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2025

Release Year

110 min

Runtime

Drama
Comedy

Overview

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.

Keywords

self-discovery
tragedy
tokyo, japan
expatriate
surrogate father
meditative
philosophical
reflective
actor
serene
inspirational
rental family
joyful
human connection

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Reviews(4)

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Brent Marchant

@Brent_Marchant

October 22, 2025

4
4/10

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

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justtoday1992

November 25, 2025

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

Nick

@NSWMGN

November 30, 2025

7
7/10

**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

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

January 21, 2026

7
7/10

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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