The Family Friend(L'amico di famiglia)
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Italy, France · 2006
1h 42m
Director Paolo Sorrentino
Starring Giacomo Rizzo, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Laura Chiatti, Gigi Angelillo
Genre Drama
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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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