The Family Friend vs The French Italian
The French Italian has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.2/10 for The Family Friend). The French Italian is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 42m. The Family Friend is the older of the two (2006 against 2024). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
The Family Friend
The French Italian| The Family Friend | The French Italian | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.2/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2006 | 2024 |
| Length | 1h 42m | 1h 32m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | United States of America |
| Director | Paolo Sorrentino | Rachel Wolther |
| Main cast | Giorgio Colangeli, Marco Giallini, Barbara Scoppa, Gigi Angelillo, Luisa De Santis | Jon Rudnitsky, Sunita Mani, Aristotle Athari, Catherine Cohen, Soojeong Son |
Synopsis
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…
The French Italian
Doug and Valerie have made a mistake. Their hate-fueled obsession with the jerks downstairs — who always seem to be singing karaoke in a brownstone, who even does that? — recently led them to flee the city for Doug’s parents’ place upstate, giving up a great deal on a rent-stabilized apartment. Their friends are horrified, and regret is setting in. They start plotting their revenge— and before they know it, they’re staging an off-Broadway play…
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