The Family Friend

The Family Friend

102 mins | Drama | Oct. 1, 2006

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...

The Family Friend

102 mins | Drama | Oct. 1, 2006

The Family Friend
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...
IMDb rating 7.1
Producers
Original title L'amico di famiglia
Directors Paolo Sorrentino
Writers Paolo Sorrentino

Cast

Giacomo Rizzo

as Geremia

Laura Chiatti

as Rosalba

Gigi Angelillo

as Saverio, Rosalba's father

Clara Bindi

as Geremia's mother

Barbara Valmorin

as Bingo's Grandmother

Antonella Salvucci

as Presenter

Marco Giallini

as Attanasio

Alina Nedelea

as Belana

Valentina Lodovini

as Debtor woman

Roberta Fiorentini

as Rosalba's mother

Elia Schilton

as Tesauro

Luisa De Santis

as Silvia

Barbara Scoppa

as Tiziana Senatore

Cristian Vitali

as Audience Miss Agro Pontino

Fabio Grossi

as Brother-in-law of Saverio

Sofia Mann

as Girl in the tub

Victoria Monti

as Girl in the tub