73%User score 73 percent
Half Brothers
2020 · Comedy · Drama
User Score
965 votes
Happiness tailored to you!
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.
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Brent Marchant
October 22, 2025
Forging 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 a call to Rental Family, a Tokyo-based company that provides individuals to step in and fill the missing link. It’s also a perfect opportunity to provide work for unemplo…
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November 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?
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Nick
November 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 sentimental beats. Critics are right that his performance is quietly devastating, conveying awkward tenderness as he navigates Tokyo's morally murky rental family industry. The elderl…
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CinemaSerf
January 21, 2026
My, 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 has been limited to a toothpaste advertising campaign that saw him in a cape with pearly white teeth. He makes ends meet by doing the ultimate in anonymous extras work. He…
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