Johnny Stecchino

1991 · 1h55 · Film

Directed by Roberto Benigni

Starring Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Paolo Bonacelli, Franco Volpi, Ivano Marescotti, Turi Scalia, Loredana Romito, Alessandro De Santis, Sal Borgese, Gaetano Campisi

Ideal when you feel… Happy Romantic Angry

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.

Original language

Italian

Screenplay

Roberto Benigni, Vincenzo Cerami

Music

Evan Lurie

Cinematography

Giuseppe Lanci

Cast

Franco Volpi, Ivano Marescotti, Turi Scalia, Loredana Romito, Alessandro De Santis, Sal Borgese, Gaetano Campisi, Giulio Donnini, Domenico Minutoli

Updated July 22, 2026

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