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Sometimes a banana is just a banana! - Johnny Stecchino
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Title: Johnny Stecchino

Release Date: 24 Oct 1991

Runtime: 1h 55m

Genre: Comedy

Director: Cecchi Gori Group Tiger Cinematografica, Penta Film

Production Companies: Cecchi Gori Group Tiger Cinematografica, Penta Film

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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Ratings

Average Vote: 7.342 (1024 votes)

Cast

  • Dante Ceccarini / Johnny Stecchino: Roberto Benigni
  • Maria: Nicoletta Braschi
  • D'Agata: Paolo Bonacelli
  • Ministro: Franco Volpi
  • Dr. Randazzo: Ivano Marescotti
  • Giudice: Turi Scalia
  • Gianna: Loredana Romito
  • Lillo: Alessandro De Santis
  • Ignazio: Sal Borgese
  • Picciotto in auto: Gaetano Campisi
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