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The Family Friend is a italien film of genre Drama directed by Paolo Sorrentino released in USA on 1 october 2006 with Giacomo Rizzo
The Family Friend (2006)
L'amico di famiglia
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 1 october 2006
Length 1h42
Directed by Paolo Sorrentino
OriginItalie
Genres Drama
Rating71%
The Family Friend (Italian: L'amico di famiglia) is a 2006 Italian film directed by Paolo Sorrentino. It was entered into the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.
Synopsis
Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives 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.Actors
Giacomo Rizzo
(Geremia De Geremei)
Fabrizio Bentivoglio
(Gino)
Laura Chiatti
(Rosalba)
Luigi Angelillo
(Saverio)
Clara Bindi
(Geremia's mother)
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