Philip (Brendan Fraser) is a struggling American actor living in Tokyo, searching for human connection. After bouncing from audition to audition, he finds a calling when Shinji Tada (Takehiro Hira), the owner of a small role-playing firm called Rental Family, hires him to play the token white guy in the many real-life scenarios their lonely clients need fulfilled. In a role requiring far less artifice than his physically transformative Oscar-winning performance in “The Whale”, Fraser puts a face to forlornness in an unconventional, endearing crowd-pleaser.

Robert Daniels, Screen Daily