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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...
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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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Genre:Drama
Written By:Paolo Sorrentino
In Theaters:10/1/2006
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Runtime:102 minutes
Studio:Fandango, Indigo Film, Medusa Film, Sky, Babe Film, StudioCanal
Cast
Paolo Sorrentino
Director
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
Giorgio Colangeli
Massa
Alina Nedelea
Belana
Valentina Lodovini
Debtor woman
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