The Family Friend

(2006)Directed by Paolo Sorrentino102 minDrama

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...

Giacomo Rizzoas Geremia
Laura Chiattias Rosalba
Gigi Angelilloas Saverio, Rosalba's father
Clara Bindias Geremia's mother
Barbara Valmorinas Bingo's Grandmother
Antonella Salvuccias Presenter
Marco Giallinias Attanasio
Alina Nedeleaas Belana
Valentina Lodovinias Debtor woman
Roberta Fiorentinias Rosalba's mother
Elia Schiltonas Tesauro
Barbara Scoppaas Tiziana Senatore
Cristian Vitalias Audience Miss Agro Pontino
Fabio Grossias Brother-in-law of Saverio
Sofia Mannas Girl in the tub
Victoria Montias Girl in the tub