Phillip, played masterfully by Fraser, is hired by a company that provides actors to play stand-in family members and friends for strangers — a service that is difficult to believe is real.
"That's where the movie lives. Is it blurring the line between the fantasy? Or, is the big belief the reality and the blurred region in between? And those are the conflicts that each of these characters come up against."
Yes, a rental family service was first offered in Japan in the 1990s. Better known as a professional stand-in service, it provides clients with actors who stand in as their friends, family members or co-workers at social events like weddings.
Rental family services have been featured in various series and movies over the years, including 2004's Surviving Christmas starring Ben Affleck.
Is Rental Family based on a true story?
"I really wanted to make a story, or write a story, about connection between people or total strangers and how that looks like," writer-director Hikari told RadioTimes.com. "It's all about feeling for me and just by creating a character like Phillip who is [a] fish out of water, [an] American guy, [the] token white guy living in Tokyo, because that's kind of my experience when I lived in America for the first time, and I was the only Asian girl."
"So that was kind of my idea [of] what kind of movie I wanted to make. And then just throw the rental family idea and see what that looked like and [it] brought a lot of different versions of the script, and we just landed on this one."
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