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|header1 = Series | |||
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|data4 = 1987 | |||
|title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/rent-a-family-(part-1) Rent a Family (Part 1)][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=Rent%20a%20Family%20(Part%201)] | |||
|data6 = Barbara Sohmers, Mark Hammer, Arthur Miller, Tim Jerome, Nick Aulette, Carolyn Swift, Larry Block, Lynn, Sarah, Carmen, Thomas, Timo, Sharon, Christa | |||
|data10 = [[Pact With God, A|A Pact With God]] | |||
|data11 = [[Rent A Family (Part 2)]] | |||
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''"Anyway they closed the office and they let me go"'' | |||
"Rent a Family (Part 1)" is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Work In Progress]]. It was originally broadcast in [[1987]]. | |||
== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
The program explores an organization that rents women with children to bachelors for days at a time. A woman talks about signing up with the program. Panel discussion about the program with a spokesman and questioners: men who choose a range of different families; renting spare children; the cost of different families; built in obsolescence; the relative value of long and short term relationships; the RAF as prostitution. Clips from the catalog of applicant videos against a background of chimes and Joe listing random nouns. The woman discusses her first experience in the program. Panel discussion continues: loneliness; the no parent family; intimacy in short term relationships; fast moving society, a bachelor in RAF commits suicide. More catalog clips. The woman describes the first meeting with her renter for a picnic on the beach. [Spoiler removed.] Panel discussion: the strangeness of the encounter as a positive, alienation in ordinary marriage. | The program explores an organization that rents women with children to bachelors for days at a time. A woman talks about signing up with the program. Panel discussion about the program with a spokesman and questioners: men who choose a range of different families; renting spare children; the cost of different families; built in obsolescence; the relative value of long and short term relationships; the RAF as prostitution. Clips from the catalog of applicant videos against a background of chimes and Joe listing random nouns. The woman discusses her first experience in the program. Panel discussion continues: loneliness; the no parent family; intimacy in short term relationships; fast moving society, a bachelor in RAF commits suicide. More catalog clips. The woman describes the first meeting with her renter for a picnic on the beach. [Spoiler removed.] Panel discussion: the strangeness of the encounter as a positive, alienation in ordinary marriage. | ||
== Interesting Facts == | == Interesting Facts == | ||
There is/was an actual "Rent-A-Family" company in Japan that sent actors to visit lonely parents - see the Winter 1994 [http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC37/Bush2.htm "In Context"]. | There is/was an actual "Rent-A-Family" company in Japan that sent actors to visit lonely parents - see the Winter 1994 [http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC37/Bush2.htm "In Context"]. | ||
This show was so emotionally powerful, that the actors involved often broke down in tears (in real life) during the taping. | This show was so emotionally powerful, that the actors involved often broke down in tears (in real life) during the taping. | ||