The Family Friend
The Family Friend

The Family Friend

7.2102 min
Drama

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...

Movie Info

Release Date: 10/1/2006

Runtime: 102 min

Director: Paolo Sorrentino

Writers: Paolo Sorrentino

Top Cast

Giacomo Rizzo

Giacomo Rizzo

Geremia

Fabrizio Bentivoglio

Fabrizio Bentivoglio

Gino

Laura Chiatti

Laura Chiatti

Rosalba

Gigi Angelillo

Gigi Angelillo

Saverio, Rosalba's father

Clara Bindi

Clara Bindi

Geremia's mother

Barbara Valmorin

Barbara Valmorin

Bingo's Grandmother

Antonella Salvucci

Antonella Salvucci

Presenter

Marco Giallini

Marco Giallini

Attanasio

Giorgio Colangeli

Giorgio Colangeli

Massa

Alina Nedelea

Alina Nedelea

Belana

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