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The Family Friend
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The Family Friend

2006-10-01 · 102 min · ★ 7.2

Drama

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...

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Directors
Paolo Sorrentino
Production companies
Fandango, Indigo Film, Medusa Film, Sky, Babe Film, StudioCanal
Countries
Italy, France
Status
Released

Top Cast

Giacomo RizzoGiacomo RizzoGeremia
Fabrizio BentivoglioFabrizio BentivoglioGino
Laura ChiattiLaura ChiattiRosalba
Gigi AngelilloGigi AngelilloSaverio, Rosalba's father
Clara BindiClara BindiGeremia's mother
Barbara ValmorinBarbara ValmorinBingo's Grandmother
Antonella SalvucciAntonella SalvucciPresenter
Marco GialliniMarco GialliniAttanasio
Giorgio ColangeliGiorgio ColangeliMassa
Alina NedeleaAlina NedeleaBelana
Valentina LodoviniValentina LodoviniDebtor woman
Roberta FiorentiniRoberta FiorentiniRosalba's mother
Elia SchiltonElia SchiltonTesauro
Luisa De SantisLuisa De SantisSilvia
Barbara ScoppaBarbara ScoppaTiziana Senatore
Cristian VitaliAudience Miss Agro Pontino
Fabio GrossiFabio GrossiBrother-in-law of Saverio
Sofia MannGirl in the tub
Victoria MontiGirl in the tub

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