The Family Friend vs The Secret Life of Jim
The Secret Life of Jim has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.2/10 for The Family Friend). The Secret Life of Jim is the shorter watch at 17m compared with 1h 42m. The Family Friend is the older of the two (2006 against 2022). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
The Family Friend
The Secret Life of Jim| The Family Friend | The Secret Life of Jim | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.2/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2006 | 2022 |
| Length | 1h 42m | 17m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Paolo Sorrentino | Emmet Kelly |
| Main cast | Giorgio Colangeli, Marco Giallini, Barbara Scoppa, Gigi Angelillo, Luisa De Santis | Aidan Jordan, Emmet Kelly, Sarah Carroll, Gerry Cannon |
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 Secret Life of Jim
Nick tries desperately to have one more real moment with his father Jim who suffers from Alzheimer disease.
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