Unexpected Family

Unexpected Family (过家家, 2026) is a Chinese tragicomedy with Jackie Chan that you can watch online on iFILM. Ren Jiqing, a retired weightlifting coach, is growing old, and his memory is starting to slip away.

One day he mistakes his young tenant, Zhong Bufan, for the son who walked out years ago. The kid doesn't correct him. Together with a ragtag group of neighbors, he agrees to play along and act out the family Ren no longer has. It begins as a small kindness, a lie meant to keep an old man calm. But each of these strangers carries a quiet weight of their own, and the longer the act runs, the less of it feels like acting.

Directed by Li Taiyan, the film hands Jackie Chan a role with almost no fighting in it — a soft, human turn about memory and loneliness that sits far from his action work. Comedy and grief share the same scenes here, one tipping into the other without warning. Stream Unexpected Family (2026) online on iFILM.