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The Family Friend

The Family Friend

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 1, 2006

Runtime

1h 42m

Genres

Drama

User Score

73%

Original Title

L'amico di famiglia

Production Companies

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

Director

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...