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Johnny Stecchino(Movie, 1991)

1h 42min | Genre: Comedy
Johnny StecchinoRating: 3.7/5 (with 468468 votes)
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. This film follows the life of Dante, a quirky school bus driver (Benigni) for students with Down syndrome, who bears a striking resemblance to Johnny Stecchino, an Italian mafioso who is wanted by Sicilian mobsters for treason and murder. The film's plot begins to unravel when Dante meets Maria, the wife of Stecchino, who begins her plan into tricking mobsters to kill Dante thinking he is Stecchino. The film takes several unexpected twists when Maria begins to fall for Dante, and it becomes clear that Dante cannot possibly be the cold-blooded killer Johnny Stecchino. The U.S. version released in theaters and on VHS is about 20 minutes shorter than the full Italian version. It trims several conversations including the final scene with Lillo sniffing cocaine. ()
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About Johnny Stecchino

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.

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Johnny Stecchino (1991)(Trailer, 1:35)

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Additional Information

Production country: Italy
Shot in: Rome, Catania, Palermo
Plays in: Emilia-Romagna
Original language: Italian (IT)
Spoken languages: Italian (IT)
Translated into 16 languages: German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Polish (PL), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Serbian (SR), Turkish (TR), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 10/24/1991
Director: Roberto Benigni
Film Editor: Nino Baragli
Director of Photography: Giuseppe Lanci
Composer: Evan Lurie
Production Designer: Paolo Biagetti
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Zahnstocher Johnny"

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