RENTAL FAMILY (2025)

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Set in modern-day Tokyo, HIKARI's Rental Family stars Academy Award®–winning Brendan Fraser as a has-been American actor searching for purpose and belonging in a society where he feels increasingly adrift. An unexpected acting call leads him to a "rental family" agency, where he is hired to play stand-in roles for strangers seeking connection. As performance begins to blur with reality, the immersive role-playing awakens his humanity and compassion, drawing him deeply into his clients' lives and pushing him off-script whenever his empathetic heart takes over. Searchlight's Rental Family channels the emotional depth of award-winning director, producer, and co-writer HIKARI (Beef, Tokyo Vice, 37 Seconds), who believes cinema "allows us to view others with empathy, creates space for conversation, and see parts of ourselves we did not know existed."

Special Features and Technical Specs:

• Featurette: Rental Family Revealed — Go behind the scenes with Brendan Fraser, director HIKARI, and the Japanese cast as they explore friendship, culture, found family, and filming in Japan in this intimate look at the making of Rental Family.
• Deleted/Extended Scenes:
• Columbus
• Crying Session
• Apology
• Aiko's First Client
• Clearbright
• Tickets
• Audition
• Phone Call
• Final Montage
• Audio: English 5.1 DTS-HDMA and 2.0 Dolby Digital Descriptive Audio, Spanish and French 5.1 Dolby Digital Language Tracks
• Optional English SDH, Spanish and French subtitles for the main feature