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Johnny Stecchino
“Sometimes a banana is just a banana!”
7.3 / 10• 1991• 1h 55m•NR• Italian
Comedy
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Roberto Benigni
Dante Ceccarini / Johnny Stecchino
Lead
Nicoletta Braschi
Maria
Paolo Bonacelli
D'Agata
Franco Volpi
Ministro
IM
Ivano Marescotti
Dr. Randazzo
Turi Scalia
Giudice
Loredana Romito
Gianna
AD
Alessandro De Santis
Lillo
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Roberto Benigni's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
4.0
“Every frame feels alive. Johnny Stecchino is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
