The Family Friend

2006 · directed by Paolo Sorrentino

Rating

71/100

Hit

no

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...

The Family Friend (2006), directed by Paolo Sorrentino, rates 71/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.

Cast

• Giacomo Rizzo
• Fabrizio Bentivoglio
• Laura Chiatti
• Gigi Angelillo
• Clara Bindi
• Barbara Valmorin
• Antonella Salvucci
• Marco Giallini
• Giorgio Colangeli
• Alina Nedelea

Crew

• Luca Bigazzi — Director of Photography
• Giogiò Franchini — Editor
• Paolo Sorrentino — Screenplay

More from Paolo Sorrentino

1. The Great Beauty (2013) — 81/100 · hit
2. Il Divo (2008) — 79/100
3. The Consequences of Love (2004) — 77/100
4. The Hand of God (2021) — 76/100
5. Loro 2 (2018) — 74/100
6. La Grazia (2025) — 72/100

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