The Rental
''The Rental'' is a 2020 American horror film written, produced and directed by Dave Franco, in his feature directorial debut. Franco co-wrote the screenplay with Joe Swanberg from a story by Franco, Swanberg, and Mike Demski. It stars Dan Stevens, Alison Brie, Sheila Vand, Jeremy Allen White, and Toby Huss, and follows two couples who begin to suspect they are being watched in the house they rented. The film was released on video-on-demand and in select theaters in the United States on July 24, 2020, by IFC Films. It received generally positive reviews from critics, and became the second film to ever top video-on-demand (VOD) charts and the box office in the same weekend. Plot Charlie, his wife Michelle, his brother Josh, and Josh's girlfriend/Charlie's coworker Mina rent a remote house on the Oregon Coast for a weekend getaway. On their arrival at the property, they meet the house's caretaker Taylor, who acts oddly and makes racist remarks toward Mina. After they have settled ...
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Dave Franco
David John Franco (born June 12, 1985) is an American actor. He began his career with small roles in films such as '' Superbad'' (2007) and '' Charlie St. Cloud'' (2010). Following a starring role in the ninth season of the comedy series '' Scrubs'', Franco had his film breakthrough as a supporting role in the buddy comedy film ''21 Jump Street'' (2012). Franco has also starred in ''Fright Night'' (2011), '' Now You See Me'' (2013) and its sequel ''Now You See Me 2'' (2016), '' Neighbors'' (2014), ''Nerve'' (2016), ''The Disaster Artist'' (2017), and '' Day Shift'' (2022). In 2020, he made his directorial debut with ''The Rental'', which starred his wife Alison Brie. Early life Franco was born in Palo Alto, California, to Betsy Lou (née Verne), a poet, children's book author, and editor, and Douglas Eugene Franco (1948–2011), who ran a nonprofit agency and a business; the two met as students at Stanford University. Anderson, Sam.The James Franco Project ''New York'', Ju ...
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