Johnny Stecchino

Johnny Stecchino (1991)

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.

Date of release
1991-10-24
TMDB
7.3 / 10 (1085)
Runtime
1h 55m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Roberto Benigni

Casting

  • Roberto Benigni — Dante Ceccarini / Johnny Stecchino
  • Nicoletta Braschi — Maria
  • Paolo Bonacelli — D'Agata
  • Franco Volpi — Ministro
  • Ivano Marescotti — Dr. Randazzo
  • Turi Scalia — Giudice
  • Loredana Romito — Gianna
  • Alessandro De Santis — Lillo
  • Sal Borgese — Ignazio
  • Gaetano Campisi — Picciotto in auto
  • Giulio Donnini — Cardinale
  • Domenico Minutoli — Questore di Palermo

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