Rental Family – 2025, 110min, on Amazon, Rotten Tomatoes 87%

Brendan Frasier (The Whale, School Ties, Gods & Monsters, The Mummy), plays a struggling actor in Tokyo who lands a odd gig with a Japanese agency that hires actors to play real people for families, such as a long lost relative, a biographer of an aging parent who needs to appreciate his life. Need a fiance to appease parents aching for their daughter to be married? Hire Brendan. His first role is a sad American at a funeral, and that’s a perfect role for Brendan’s character who’s a sad American looking for connection, just like the people he’s hired to help