Burt vs The Family Friend
Burt has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.2/10 for The Family Friend). Burt is the shorter watch at 1h 18m 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.
Burt
The Family Friend| Burt | The Family Friend | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.2/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2006 |
| Length | 1h 18m | 1h 42m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Joe Burke | Paolo Sorrentino |
| Main cast | Oliver Cooper, Olivia Luccardi, Brenda Vaccaro, John Karna, Louis Lombardi | Giorgio Colangeli, Marco Giallini, Barbara Scoppa, Gigi Angelillo, Luisa De Santis |
Synopsis
Burt
Burt, a 69-year-old musician with Parkinson’s, has his life turned upside down when a man from New York shows up claiming to be his son. Having always dreamed of being a father, Burt embraces Sammy and invites him to stay for the weekend, where he lives with his grumpy landlord.
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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