The Family Friend (2006)

7.2/10 102 min Drama

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...

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

Giorgio Colangeli

Massa

Alina Nedelea

Belana

Valentina Lodovini

Debtor woman

Roberta Fiorentini

Rosalba's mother

Elia Schilton

Tesauro

Luisa De Santis

Silvia

Barbara Scoppa

Tiziana Senatore

Fabio Grossi

Brother-in-law of Saverio

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