sicily, italy,gangster,bus driver,fool,femme fatale,mafia,falling in love,sicilian mafia,doppelgänger

Johnny Stecchino (1991)

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Sometimes a banana is just a banana!

Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her car he meets Maria, who seems immediately enamoured of him. He is soon invited to her sumptuous Palermo villa, little suspecting that this is part of a plot. He bears an amazing likeness to Maria's stool-pigeon gangster husband and it would be convenient for them if the mobster, in the shape of Dante, was seen to be dead and buried.

Cast & Crew

Director
Roberto Benigni
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    Dante Ceccarini / Johnny Stecchino Roberto Benigni
  • Profile picture of Nicoletta Braschi
    Maria Nicoletta Braschi
  • Profile picture of Paolo Bonacelli
    D'Agata Paolo Bonacelli
  • Profile picture of Franco Volpi
    Ministro Franco Volpi
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    Dr. Randazzo Ivano Marescotti
  • Profile picture of Turi Scalia
    Giudice Turi Scalia
  • Profile picture of Loredana Romito
    Gianna Loredana Romito
  • Profile picture of Sal Borgese
    Ignazio Sal Borgese

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Keywords

  • sicily, italy
  • gangster
  • bus driver
  • fool
  • femme fatale
  • mafia
  • falling in love
  • sicilian mafia
  • doppelgänger