Movie·1991·1h 55m
Johnny Stecchino
Sometimes a banana is just a banana!
Country
Italy
Language
Italian
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// overview
The Story
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.
Producer
Mario Cecchi Gori, Vittorio Cecchi Gori
Cinematography
Giuseppe Lanci
Music
Evan Lurie
Editor
Nino Baragli
Themes
Production House
Audience Score
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// cast
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
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
// crew
Crew
Mario Cecchi Gori
Producer
Roberto Benigni
Director, Screenplay, Story
Nino Baragli
Editor
Vittorio Cecchi Gori
Producer
Vincenzo Cerami
Screenplay, Story
Giuseppe Lanci
Director of Photography
Evan Lurie
Original Music Composer
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