Johnny Stecchino

Oct 24, 1991

1h 55m

★ 7.3

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.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Cecchi Gori Group Tiger Cinematografica

Penta Film

Johnny Stecchino Trailers

Cast

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

Lillo

Alessandro De Santis

Ignazio

Sal Borgese

Picciotto in auto

Gaetano Campisi

Cardinale

Giulio Donnini

Questore di Palermo

Domenico Minutoli

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