The Family Friend (2006)

  • NR
  • 10/01/2006 (US)
  • Drama
  • 1h 42m

Overview

Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other people's affairs, pretending to be the "family friend". One day he is asked by a man to lend him money for the wedding of Rosalba, his daughter. Geremia falls in love at first sight with the bewitching creature and and soon indulges in a "beauty and the beast" relationship...

Paolo Sorrentino

Director, Screenplay

Cast

Giacomo Rizzo's headshot

Giacomo Rizzo

Geremia
Fabrizio Bentivoglio's headshot

Fabrizio Bentivoglio

Gino
Laura Chiatti's headshot

Laura Chiatti

Rosalba
Gigi Angelillo's headshot

Gigi Angelillo

Saverio, Rosalba's father
Clara Bindi's headshot

Clara Bindi

Geremia's mother
Barbara Valmorin's headshot

Barbara Valmorin

Bingo's Grandmother
Antonella Salvucci's headshot

Antonella Salvucci

Presenter
Marco Giallini's headshot

Marco Giallini

Attanasio

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