The Family Friend

Synopsis

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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Key crew

• Paolo SorrentinoDirector
• Paolo SorrentinoScreenplay

Cast

• Giacomo RizzoGeremia
• Fabrizio BentivoglioGino
• Laura ChiattiRosalba
• Gigi AngelilloSaverio, Rosalba's father
• Clara BindiGeremia's mother
• Barbara ValmorinBingo's Grandmother
• Antonella SalvucciPresenter
• Marco GialliniAttanasio
• Giorgio ColangeliMassa
• Alina NedeleaBelana
• Valentina LodoviniDebtor woman
• Roberta FiorentiniRosalba's mother

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