Above the Line vs The Family Friend
Above the Line has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.2/10 for The Family Friend). Above the Line is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 42m. The Family Friend is the older of the two (2006 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Above the Line
The Family Friend| Above the Line | The Family Friend | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.2/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2006 |
| Length | 1h 30m | 1h 42m |
| Genres | Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama | Drama |
| Country | United States of America | – |
| Director | Jeffrey Scott Collins | Paolo Sorrentino |
| Main cast | Gregg Henry, Reno Wilson, Cedric the Entertainer, Suzy Nakamura, Sophia Ali | Giorgio Colangeli, Marco Giallini, Barbara Scoppa, Gigi Angelillo, Luisa De Santis |
Synopsis
Above the Line
Six struggling Hollywood hopefuls team up for the ultimate comeback: to rob the Academy Awards from the crooked producer who crushed their dreams. But in a town built on make-believe, pulling off the perfect heist might just be the role of their lives.
The Family Friend
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…
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