Film · 2025 · Films · 2020s
Rental Family
Scored from 266 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
Phillip, a washed-up American actor scraping by in Tokyo on the memory of one old commercial, takes work with an agency that rents out stand-in relatives — a wedding guest, a mourner, a father — to clients who need a role filled. Directed by Hikari and starring Brendan Fraser, the film follows him through assignments that require inhabiting strangers' lives with total conviction and then walking away. His longest engagement, playing the absent father of a young girl, steadily erodes the line between the performance and the attachment underneath it. A contemporary character drama set in Tokyo, played in both English and Japanese.
Released in 2025, Rental Family is a comedy and drama film. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy. Its certificate is PG-13.
The calibrated figure is built from 266 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 281 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 437 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s films — 7,930 of them.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Rental Family lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 2020s (7,930 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 266.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
