A Grande Família (The Great Family) is a critically-acclaimed Brazilian television comedy, and is one of the most watched shows in Brazil. The show airs on the Globo Network , and tells the story of a typical lower middle-class family living in a suburb neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro.
The family consists of a working father, Lineu, a housewife and mother, Nenê, their son Tuco, their daughter Bebel, and Bebel's fiancée, Agostinho, a taxi driver portrayed as the typical carioca "malandro". The family's grandfather, Floriano, was written out of the story after the death of actor Rogério Cardoso.
A movie based on the series premiered on January 10, 2007.[citation needed]
In the cast: