Movielogr
Johnny Stecchino (1991)
Directed by Roberto Benigni
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.
Rated R | Length 115 minutes
Actors
Roberto Benigni | Nicoletta Braschi | Paolo Bonacelli | Franco Volpi | Ivano Marescotti | Turi Scalia | Loredana Romito | Alessandro De Santis | Salvatore Borgese | Gaetano Campisi | Giulio Donnini | Domenico Minutoli | Georgia O'Brien | Ignazio Pappalardo | Gigliola Reina | Tony Sperandeo | Giorgio Trestini | Vito Zappalà | Amedeo Carlo Mangiu | Luciana Pieri Palombi | Conchita Puglisi