Roberto Benigni
Dante/Johnny Stecchino
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Johnny Stecchino: Directed by Roberto Benigni. With Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Paolo Bonacelli, Franco Volpi. A kindhearted but bumbling idiot who likes to steal bananas, is passed off for a snitch hiding from the mob.
- (12K)
- Comedy, Crime, Romance
- Roberto Benigni
- 1991-10-24
Johnny Stecchino is a 1991 Italian comedy film directed by and starring Roberto Benigni in dual roles. This film is one of Benigni's many collaborations with co-star and wife, Nicoletta Braschi. It was the highest-grossing film of all-time in Italy with a gross of 39 billion liras.
Johnny Stecchino (1991) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Roberto Benigni. Screenplay, Story. Vincenzo Cerami. Screenplay, Story. 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.
Johnny Stecchino. Dante (Roberto Benigni) is a sweet, bumbling school bus driver in Rome, beloved by all, but unlucky in love. That is, until he meets the gorgeous Maria (Nicoletta Braschi), who...
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Benigni's main project that year, though, was "Johnny Stecchino" (1991), where he played a rather dimwitted bus driver who is mistaken for a notorious mobster and becomes entangled with a scheming femme fatale played by frequent co-star Nicoletta Braschi, whom Benigni married that year.
