Johnny Stecchino (1991)
October 24, 1991
Comedy
1h 55m
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
- Dante Ceccarini / Johnny Stecchino Roberto Benigni
- Maria Nicoletta Braschi
- D'Agata Paolo Bonacelli
- Ministro Franco Volpi
- Dr. Randazzo Ivano Marescotti
- Giudice Turi Scalia
- Gianna Loredana Romito
- Ignazio Sal Borgese
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Keywords
- sicily, italy
- gangster
- bus driver
- fool
- femme fatale
- mafia
- falling in love
- sicilian mafia
- doppelgänger