The Family Friend (2006)
Kernel Score: 80% · 305 ratings
Genres: Drama
Released: 2006-10-01
Runtime: 102 minutes
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...
The Family Friend parents' guide: ages 12+
Parents need to know that The Family Friend centers on a miserly, controlling older man whose obsessive fixation on a young woman drives the plot.
Fresh Kernels AI-assessed from publicly documented content. A guide for families, not an official rating.
Director
Cast
- Giacomo Rizzo as Geremia
- Fabrizio Bentivoglio as Gino
- Laura Chiatti as Rosalba
- Gigi Angelillo as Saverio, Rosalba's father
- Clara Bindi as Geremia's mother
- Barbara Valmorin as Bingo's Grandmother
- Antonella Salvucci as Presenter
- Marco Giallini as Attanasio
- Giorgio Colangeli as Massa
- Alina Nedelea as Belana
The Family Friend FAQ
Is The Family Friend good?
The Family Friend has an 80% Kernel Score on Fresh Kernels from 305 audience ratings.
Is The Family Friend OK for kids?
Fresh Kernels suggests ages 12+. Parents need to know that The Family Friend centers on a miserly, controlling older man whose obsessive fixation on a young woman drives the plot.