Rental Family is a film in the comedy-drama genre. It's directed by Hikari, who has also written the screenplay with Stephen Blahut.

Brendan Fraser has been on a roll since making his big Hollywood comeback in Darren Aronofsky's The Whale in 2022. The role won him an Academy Award for best actor at the 2023 Oscars. Just last week, ...

In "Rental Family," Brendan Fraser plays Phillip Vandarpleog, an American expat in Japan who is "searching for purpose and ...

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Welcome to another edition of Trust Me, I Watch Everything, a weekly guide to all the new movies released on Friday. I'm Brett Arnold, film critic and host of Roger & Me, a weekly Siskel & Ebert-style ...

The romantic comedy anime Rent-a-Girlfriend has officially locked in a release date window for Season 5. The announcement provides long-awaited clarity for fans, confirming that the series will return ...

“Rental Family” is coming home, so you can watch it with your family. If you missed the charming, heartfelt drama when it was released last fall, it follows an American expat (Brendan Fraser), who is ...

A millennial woman based in NYC revealed that she avoids paying rent by working as a full-time house sitter. Considering rent in NYC is exceptionally high, even for locals who grew up in the five ...

The recent film Rental Family, starring Brendan Fraser and directed by Hikari, has put a spotlight on a social phenomenon in contemporary Japanese culture: hiring actors to play family members, ...

Just like the actor played by Brendan Fraser, Sight Unseen's Julia Lebedev and Eddie Vaisman gleaned lessons about life and art amid a different cultural backdrop, where location agreements don’t ...

Three years after his Oscar-winning performance in "The Whale," Brendan Fraser is back, doling out the warm-and-fuzzies as the lovably awkward Phillip Vandarpleog in Japanese director Hikari’s dramedy ...

If acting is about playing in a fantasy world, Rental Family reminds you how much people’s fantasies are based on the escape of their reality. FEMA denies aid to Arizona counties after disastrous ...