

Johnny Stecchino(1991)
"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.
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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
Georgia O'Brien
Moglie del ministro
Ignazio Pappalardo
Cozzamara
Gigliola Reina

Tony Sperandeo
Picciotto in auto

Giorgio Trestini
Portiere Hotel
Vito Zappalà
Maresciallo
Amedeo Carlo Mangiu
Barbiere
Luciana Pieri Palombi

Conchita Puglisi
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