Movie

Family Romance, LLC

2019 · 110 min

A quiet, unsettling meditation on loneliness and performance, blurring the line between hired emotion and genuine connection.

Tagline: Followers, friends, family. All available for hire.
Overview: Love is a business at Family Romance, a company that rents human stand-ins for any occasion. Founder Yuichi Ishii helps make his clients’ dreams come true. But when the mother of 12-year-old Mahiro hires Ishii to impersonate her missing father, the line between acting and reality threatens to blur.
How it feels: Melancholic, eerie, earnest and dark. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Isolation, identity, family, loneliness
Content: Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
identity
family
loneliness
deception
Places: big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none