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The Family Friend (2006)
Directed by Paolo Sorrentino
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…
Length 102 minutes
Actors
Giacomo Rizzo | Fabrizio Bentivoglio | Laura Chiatti | Gigi Angelillo | Clara Bindi | Barbara Valmorin | Antonella Salvucci | Marco Giallini | Giorgio Colangeli | Alina Nedelea | Valentina Lodovini | Roberta Fiorentini | Elia Schilton | Luisa De Santis | Barbara Scoppa | Cristian Vitali | Fabio Grossi | Sofia Mann | Victoria Monti