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.

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