The Family Friend

The Family Friend

The Family Friend

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The Family Friend

2006

1h 42m

7.2(301 votes)

Drama

Overview

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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Indigo Film

Medusa Film

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StudioCanal

Cast & Crew

19 members

Acting

Giacomo Rizzo

Geremia

Giacomo Rizzo

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Fabrizio Bentivoglio

Gino

Fabrizio Bentivoglio

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Laura Chiatti

Rosalba

Laura Chiatti

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Gigi Angelillo

Saverio, Rosalba's father

Gigi Angelillo

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Clara Bindi

Geremia's mother

Clara Bindi

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Barbara Valmorin

Bingo's Grandmother

Barbara Valmorin

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Antonella Salvucci

Presenter

Antonella Salvucci

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Marco Giallini

Attanasio

Marco Giallini

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Giorgio Colangeli

Massa

Giorgio Colangeli

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Alina Nedelea

Belana

Alina Nedelea

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Valentina Lodovini

Debtor woman

Valentina Lodovini

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Roberta Fiorentini

Rosalba's mother

Roberta Fiorentini

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Elia Schilton

Tesauro

Elia Schilton

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Luisa De Santis

Silvia

Luisa De Santis

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Barbara Scoppa

Tiziana Senatore

Barbara Scoppa

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Cristian Vitali

Audience Miss Agro Pontino

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Fabio Grossi

Brother-in-law of Saverio

Fabio Grossi

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Sofia Mann

Girl in the tub

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Victoria Monti

Girl in the tub

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