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| Roberto Benigni | ... | Dante / Johnny Stecchino | |
| Nicoletta Braschi | ... | Maria | |
| Paolo Bonacelli | ... | D'Agata | |
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Franco Volpi | ... | Ministro |
| Ivano Marescotti | ... | Dr. Randazzo | |
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Turi Scalia | ... | Giudice |
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Loredana Romito | ... | Gianna |
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Alessandro De Santis | ... | Lillo |
| Sal Borgese | ... | Ignazio | |
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Gaetano Campisi | ... | Picciotto in auto |
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Giulio Donnini | ... | Cardinale |
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Domenico Minutoli | ... | Questore di Palermo |
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Georgia O'Brien | ... | Moglie del ministro (as Giorgia O'Brien) |
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Ignazio Pappalardo | ... | Cozzamara |
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Gigliola Reina | ||
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. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Before Roberto Benigni became a household name in the States, he directed and starred in this totally wacky movie about an ordinary man mistaken for a mobster while looking for a woman (Nicoletta Braschi) in Sicily. I guess that mostly, "Johnny Stecchino" is a big excuse to be silly, but it's definitely what Benigni does best. The movie is like a combination of a Charlie Chaplin flick and a Looney Tunes cartoon cranked up to maximum energy. It's a fun romp in every way, shape and form. And it will probably make you want to go to Sicily. All in all, a really good time.
And don't forget: stay away from the bananas!