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The Family Friend 2006 Directed by Paolo Sorrentino L'amico di famiglia

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...

Country Italy
Production Countries France , Italy
Language Italian
Spoken Languages French , Italian
Gnere Drama
Production Companies StudioCanal , Medusa Film , Fandango , Indigo Film , Sky , Babe Film
Release Date 1 October 2006
102 mins
Cast
Gigi Angelillo Saverio, Rosalba's father
Clara Bindi Geremia's mother
Barbara Valmorin Bingo's Grandmother
Marco Giallini Attanasio
Valentina Lodovini Debtor woman
Roberta Fiorentini Rosalba's mother
Barbara Scoppa Tiziana Senatore
Cristian Vitali Audience Miss Agro Pontino
Fabio Grossi Brother-in-law of Saverio
Sofia Mann Girl in the tub
Victoria Monti Girl in the tub