Oct 01, 2006
102 min
Full-HD

The Family Friend (2006)

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...

Category

Drama

Country

Companies

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

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