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...

• Release date
• October 1, 2006
• Runtime
• 102 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Paolo Sorrentino

Cast

Giacomo Rizzo Geremia Fabrizio Bentivoglio Gino Laura Chiatti Rosalba Gigi Angelillo Saverio, Rosalba's father Clara Bindi Geremia's mother Barbara Valmorin Bingo's Grandmother Antonella Salvucci Presenter Marco Giallini Attanasio