Johnny Stecchino

Johnny Stecchino (1991)

15
21/10/2002 (GB)
Comedy
1h 55m

Sometimes a banana is just a banana!

Overview

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.

  • Roberto BenigniDirector, Screenplay
  • Vincenzo CeramiScreenplay
  • Status

    Released

  • Original Language

    Italian

Keywords

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

Top Billed Cast

Roberto Benigni

Roberto Benigni

Dante Ceccarini / Johnny Stecchino

Nicoletta Braschi

Nicoletta Braschi

Maria

Paolo Bonacelli

Paolo Bonacelli

D'Agata

Franco Volpi

Franco Volpi

Ministro

Ivano Marescotti

Ivano Marescotti

Dr. Randazzo

Turi Scalia

Turi Scalia

Giudice

Loredana Romito

Loredana Romito

Gianna

Alessandro De Santis

Lillo

Sal Borgese

Sal Borgese

Ignazio

Gaetano Campisi

Picciotto in auto

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