Thanksgiving is a time to get together with loved ones, indulge in a big meal and spend quality time. In addition to watching football, friends and family can gather around the TV and laugh as they ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- "Rental Family" is a new movie that just opened to rave reviews, and it is playing in theaters now. It stars Brendan Fraser as an American actor struggling to find work in Japan. He's ...

Brendan Fraser leads the cast of the new movie, "Rental Family." He plays an actor living in Japan who is offered the opportunity to play some different kinds of roles...not on TV or in the ...

As with actual family vacations, movies about family vacations can be both good and bad. It’s been a common idea for films for many years, which makes sense. There’s an easy path to eventfulness, and ...

Families can be the worst, especially around the holidays. Even if you love each member individually, when they’re collectively brought together it can be a recipe for disaster. However, trust me when ...

In the Oscar winner’s new dramedy “Rental Family” (in theaters Nov. 21), American expat actor Phillip Vandarpleog (Fraser) has been living in Tokyo for seven years but is still very much an outsider.

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 ...

Brendan Fraser, one-time Encino Man and former George of the Jungle, is our new king of tear-jerking cinema. After seven years of living in Tokyo, sad-sack American expat Phillip Vandarpleog (Fraser) ...

Fraser plays American actor Phillip Vandarpleog hired by a firm in Japan to pose as different family members, with touching and turbulent results. In theaters via Searchlight Pictures on November 21st ...

Phillip Vandarploueg (Brendan Fraser) is a lonely American actor living in Japan, where he makes ends meet working in commercials. As opportunities for stable work dry up, Phillip begins working for a ...

Writing from the Chicagoland area in Illinois, Robert is an avid movie watcher and will take just about any excuse to find time to go to his local movie theaters. Robert graduated from Bradley ...