The Family Friend ·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...

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Drama
Release Date

Oct 01, 2006

Duration: 1h 42 min

Popularity: 0.2656
295 votes
Directed by

Paolo Sorrentino

Screenplay by

Paolo Sorrentino

Productions

Fandango (IT)Indigo Film (IT)Medusa Film (IT)Sky (IT)Babe Film StudioCanal (FR)

Budget

Revenue: NA