The Family Friend

(2006)

★ 7.2 IMDb · 313 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2006

Runtime: 102 мин

Country: Italy, France

Director: Паоло Соррентино

Cast: Giacomo Rizzo, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Laura Chiatti, Gigi Angelillo, Clara Bindi, Barbara Valmorin, Antonella Salvucci, Marco Giallini, Джорджо Коланджели, Alina Nedelea

Plot

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...