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Johnny Stecchino (1991)

Johnny Stecchino (1991)

Comedy

Sometimes a banana is just a banana!

Release Date: 1991, October 24
Directors: Roberto Benigni
Countries: Italy
Production: Cecchi Gori Group Tiger Cinematografica, Penta Film
Cast: Sal Borgese, Ignazio Pappalardo, Giulio Donnini, Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Alessandro De Santis, Paolo Bonacelli, Ivano Marescotti, Tony Sperandeo, Domenico Minutoli, Loredana Romito, Giorgio Trestini

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.

Keywords:

gangster femme fatale mafia sicilian mafia falling in love sicily, italy doppelgänger bus driver fool