In "Rental Family," the touchy-feely dramedy from writer-director Hikari, Academy Award winner Brendan Fraser plays Phillip Vandarploeug, an American actor who's living in Japan and, well, struggling.

His acting gigs have mostly dried up, so he turns to an agency where people hire actors to fill missing roles in their lives. Need a stand-in for an staged funeral, or someone to play your spouse in a false wedding so you can trick your parents and then run off with your true lover? There's a service for that, and it's just a phone call away.

Phillip becomes one of these actors, complications ensue, and "Rental Family," in turn, struggles to find its aim.

In one instance, Phillip is hired to play the absent father of an elementary school aged girl, Mia (the effective Shannon Mahina Gorman)

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