Rental Family (2025)
Drama/Comedy Rated 12A Spoiler Free Brendan Fraser’s career is fascinating, is there anything this man can’t do?! He picks interesting roles and while I can’t remember a bad performance, I haven’t seen all of his seventy eight credits. In Rental Family Fraser plays a jobbing actor, Phillip; mainly appearing in Japanese commercials, he gets a job as an emotional support human, a job which involves turning up at events as part of a con where people pretend to be mourners or husbands or whatever well meaning or cynical reasons the client needs. Apparently rental families have been around since the 1980’s in Japan, if you believe IMDb trivia. I doubt IMDb have a stringent, academic fact vetting process though, and nor should they. “Mental health issues are stigmatised in this country”. The Japanese suicide rate per capita is actually less depressing than I’d blithely assumed. They’re 49th in the world, and I don’t suggest looking at the league table if you’re in Africa, where suicide see...
