The Family Friend (2006)
Rating: 7.2/10
Duration: 102 min
Genres: Drama,
Director(s): Paolo Sorrentino,
Description:
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...
Cast
- Giorgio Colangeli as Massa
- Marco Giallini as Attanasio
- Barbara Scoppa as Tiziana Senatore
- Gigi Angelillo as Saverio, Rosalba's father
- Luisa De Santis as Silvia
- Valentina Lodovini as Debtor woman
- Giacomo Rizzo as Geremia
- Clara Bindi as Geremia's mother
- Laura Chiatti as Rosalba
- Fabrizio Bentivoglio as Gino
- Roberta Fiorentini as Rosalba's mother
- Elia Schilton as Tesauro
- Barbara Valmorin as Bingo's Grandmother
- Antonella Salvucci as Presenter
- Alina Nedelea as Belana