Johnny Stecchino
Comedy
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.
1991-10-24
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Cast
Director
Roberto Benigni
Roberto Benigni as Dante Ceccarini / Johnny Stecchino
Nicoletta Braschi as Maria
Paolo Bonacelli as D'Agata
Franco Volpi as Ministro
Ivano Marescotti as Dr. Randazzo
Turi Scalia as Giudice
Loredana Romito as Gianna
Sal Borgese as Ignazio
Giulio Donnini as Cardinale
Domenico Minutoli as Questore di Palermo
Tony Sperandeo as Picciotto in auto
Giorgio Trestini as Portiere Hotel
Conchita Puglisi