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  • 9 months ago
Rental Family has quickly risen up high among my favorites of the year. Not only is it the latest movie to come out of the “Brenaissance” following Brendan Fraser's win at the 2023 Oscars for The Whale, it has a powerful message that has stuck with me since I got to watch the movie a month ago. The Rental Family cast told CinemaBlend about why it’s a real career highlight for each of them as well.

The movie has Fraser playing a struggling actor named Philip living in Tokyo, Japan who takes a job for a “rental family” service where he’s hired to play real roles in people’s lives. (And as it turns out, this is an actual service you can seek out in Japan!)
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00:00there's been a moment for each of you where you realize one of your projects had a greater meaning
00:03to people gosh since that was my line i guess i'll go first um
00:12completely mercenary here but i'd say it's rental family i think this is a guy who finds that he
00:21had all these doubts and he really is enough and always was all along and the journey that he takes
00:27means that he needs to go through several incarnations in roles he plays as an actor
00:35in the lives of other people but the make-believe performative aspect of that melts away when
00:44the connections that he's making are are real um this is a movie that's been getting a response from
00:54it from everyone who sees it yeah that is varied it's a little bit different but they all feel like
01:01they have connected somehow in a meaningful way just in the same way that the clients in the world
01:07of this film connect with the providers i think for me i'm also going to say rental family because very
01:15personal like reasons because i first read the script when i had just lost my dad so it was so
01:21impactful reading it just it gave me so much hope in a really dark time and having finished the project
01:28and talking to people who have seen it um i had i've had like really tender conversations with people
01:35who um say that it probably resonates so like differently for people who have lost people close
01:42to them you know and um that meant so much to me because that's what i felt you know it gave me hope
01:48when i first felt that way so hearing that it's doing the same for people who see it means a lot to
01:54me yeah and for me i guess um i don't really think about you know if i'm helping people when i
02:03but um i guess you know seeing the end product you know like this one you know it resonated people
02:09you know across the board and just amazing how it can affect you know people and so i guess the
02:16the rental family for me too

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