There’s some movies you walk out of completely drained and spent. Then there’s other like Rental Family that leaves you feeling reinvigorated with a happy soul.
First off, the cinematography was beautiful. It brought me back to my own Japan trip with waves of nostalgia constantly engulfing me. Brendan Fraser plays a struggling actor named Phillip who ends up employed with a rental family agency. We see him try and grasp the whole concept with his first employment at a wedding. He played the soon to be husband in a wedding for a woman to have her parents welcome him in the family. After, we learn that she is actually in a relationship with another woman and this was their way of coping with that as a family. It got me emotional right off the bat.
The rest of the film mainly follows his relationship with a child and an old man close to losing his memory. I couldn’t see how they were gonna develop these storylines with everything being “fake” but it was handled beautifully. Especially taking the old man back to his home where he dug up old photos of his love. He was glad to see her one more time and said that even after so much time elapsing he still remembered her so vividly 😭
It’s not a movie that is going to win awards, but regardless I adored it all.
Rating: 856/1000
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