{"id":2003514,"date":"2025-09-07T06:20:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T06:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2003514"},"modified":"2025-09-07T06:20:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T06:20:25","slug":"rental-family-review-brendan-fraser-gets-a-stellar-star-vehicle-in-hikaris-clever-comic-heartwarmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/rental-family-review-brendan-fraser-gets-a-stellar-star-vehicle-in-hikaris-clever-comic-heartwarmer\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Rental Family\u2019 Review: Brendan Fraser Gets a Stellar Star Vehicle in Hikari\u2019s Clever Comic Heartwarmer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Oscar winners, especially those coming from left field, don\u2019t always find worthy successors to their award-winning roles. But Brendan Fraser<\/a> has come up with a beaut in his first starring part since The Whale<\/a>. Playing an American actor living in Tokyo who finds a unique way to practice his craft, the actor delivers a superlative performance in Rental Family<\/a>, a dramedy that proves a charming surprise balancing poignancy and humor with rare delicacy. Receiving its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, the movie, directed by Japanese filmmaker Hikari<\/a> (37 Seconds), should find appreciative audiences upon its theatrical release in November.<\/p>\n

At the story\u2019s beginning, Philip (Fraser<\/a>) is struggling to make a living after living in Tokyo for seven years. After a big toothpaste commercial, the jobs have dried up, to the point where he\u2019s reduced to playing a tree. So he\u2019s more than willing to…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oscar winners, especially those coming from left field, don\u2019t always find worthy successors to their award-winning roles. But Brendan Fraser has come up with a beaut in his first starring part since The Whale. Playing an American actor living in Tokyo who finds a unique way to practice his craft, the actor delivers a superlative […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2003515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2003514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u2018Rental-Family-Review-Brendan-Fraser-Gets-a-Stellar-Star-Vehicle.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2003514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2003515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}