The Family Friend

The Family Friend (2006)

Released: 2006-10-01 Duration: 1hr 42min
Genres: Drama
Rating 7.3

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...

Production Companies

Fandango
Fandango
Indigo Film
Indigo Film
Medusa Film
Medusa Film
Sky
Sky
Babe Film
StudioCanal
StudioCanal
Canal+
Canal+
Wild Bunch
Wild Bunch

Additional Info

Budget $0.00
Revenue $0.00
Original Language it
Popularity 7.753

Directed By

Paolo Sorrentino

Crew

Cinematography
Luca Bigazzi
Production Design
Lino Fiorito
Co-Producer
Fabio Conversi
Costume Design
Ortensia De Francesco
Producer
Nicola Giuliano
Costume Design
Jessica Zambelli
Producer
Francesca Cima
Screenplay
Paolo Sorrentino

TOP CAST

Gigi Angelillo
Gigi Angelillo

Saverio, Rosalba's father

Clara Bindi
Clara Bindi

Geremia's mother

Barbara Valmorin
Barbara Valmorin

Bingo's Grandmother

Marco Giallini
Marco Giallini

Attanasio

Valentina Lodovini
Valentina Lodovini

Debtor woman

Roberta Fiorentini
Roberta Fiorentini

Rosalba's mother

Barbara Scoppa
Barbara Scoppa

Tiziana Senatore

Cristian Vitali
Cristian Vitali

Audience Miss Agro Pontino

Fabio Grossi
Fabio Grossi

Brother-in-law of Saverio

Sofia Mann
Sofia Mann

Girl in the tub

Victoria Monti
Victoria Monti

Girl in the tub

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