7.3 of 10 (1002 reviews)

Johnny Stecchino

Movie NR 7.3 1991 115 min

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.

Country:

Italy

Genre:

Comedy

Year:

1991

Director:

Roberto Benigni

Stars:

Nicoletta Braschi, Paolo Bonacelli, Roberto Benigni

Tags:

bus driver, doppelgänger, falling in love, femme fatale, fool