The Family Friend

Summary 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... View more details

The Family Friend

Directed : Paolo Sorrentino

Written : Paolo Sorrentino

Stars : Marco Giallini Laura Chiatti Giacomo Rizzo Gigi Angelillo

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Genres : Drama

Release date : Nov 9, 2006

Countries of origin : Italy France

Language : Italian

Filming locations : Latina, Lazio, Italy

Production companies : Indigo Film Fandango Medusa Film

Summary 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... View more details

Details

Genres : Drama

Release date : Nov 9, 2006

Countries of origin : Italy France

Language : Italian

Filming locations : Latina, Lazio, Italy

Production companies : Indigo Film Fandango Medusa Film

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