The Family Friend

The Family Friend

7.2

Release Date:
Oct 01, 2006

Runtime:
1h 42m

Genres:
Drama

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...

Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Production: Fandango, Indigo Film, Medusa Film, Sky, Babe Film, StudioCanal