‘Rental Family’ Review: Hiring Actors to Play Relatives Would Be Weird Enough Without Brendan Fraser Being One of the Choices

Six years ago, the inimitable Werner Herzog made “Family Romance, LLC,” an odd pseudo-documentary about a Japanese service that specialized in hiring actors to play a loved one, colleague or potential suitor — whatever the client required. The company was real (or inspired by one profiled in The New Yorker), but the examples were not. […]