Johnny Stecchino

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.

• Release date
• October 24, 1991
• Runtime
• 115 min
• Genres
• Comedy
• Director
• Roberto Benigni

Cast

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

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Alessandro De Santis Lillo