Story Line
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.
“Happiness tailored to you!”
Top Cast
Brendan Fraser
Phillip Vanderploeg
Takehiro Hira
Shinji Tada
Mari Yamamoto
Aiko Nakajima
Shannon Mahina Gorman
Mia Kawasaki
Akira Emoto
Kikuo Hasegawa
Paolo Andrea Di Pietro
Handsome Actor
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Rating
7.7/ 10
Release Date
2025-11-20
Runtime
1h 50m
Genres
DramaComedy
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User Reviews (4)
Brent Marchant
4/10
•10/22/2025Forging 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 ...
justtoday1992
No rating•11/25/2025
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
7/10
•11/30/2025**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 sentime...
CinemaSerf
7/10
•1/21/2026My, 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 h...