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Brendan Fraser and Shannon Mahina Gorman star in 'Rental Family' (2025). Film Critic Brendan Fraser and Shannon Mahina Gorman star in 'Rental Family' (2025). Phillip (Brendan Fraser) seems content to ...

Acting is a tough industry to find steady work in, as any actor can attest. Things are no different for Phillip in “Rental Family” — at least, until he comes across what seems like the strangest job ...

It sounds rather like a mixed compliment to say of an actor that he’s persuasive at playing, well, a mediocre actor. But then, this is Brendan Fraser we’re talking about. The man seems to become more ...

Phillip Vandarpleog is a struggling American actor who traveled to Japan to star in a series of silly toothpaste commercials and stayed to try his luck. But even after years of living in Tokyo, his ...

The Oscar winner's latest leading role in Hikari's crowdpleasing "Rental Family" allowed him to take Method acting in some cuddly directions. As he tells IndieWire, those sorts of choices excite him, ...

Brendan Fraser is quietly endearing in this fish-out-of-water tale of an American actor in Tokyo who accepts some highly unusual assignments. By Jeannette Catsoulis When you purchase a ticket for an ...

Jason Blake, 47, of Tupelo, Mississippi, took the concept of the traditional American "nuclear family" — mother, father, children — and ran with it. Then he put it in a headlock, gave it a suplex, and ...

"The Mummy", "George of the Jungle", "Journey to the Center of the Earth" and Best Picture Oscar winner "Crash" are just some of the films that made Brendan Fraser one of the most popular actors of ...

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