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Audiences rate it 26 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes46%
Audiences rate it 26 points higher than critics do.
1,083 audience votes
Key crew
- Roberto BenigniScreenplay
- Roberto BenigniDirector
- Vincenzo CeramiScreenplay
- Evan LurieOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Roberto BenigniDante Ceccarini / Johnny Stecchino
- Nicoletta BraschiMaria
- Paolo BonacelliD'Agata
- Franco VolpiMinistro
- Ivano MarescottiDr. Randazzo
- Turi ScaliaGiudice
- Loredana RomitoGianna
- Alessandro De SantisLillo
- Sal BorgeseIgnazio
- Gaetano CampisiPicciotto in auto
- Giulio DonniniCardinale
- Domenico MinutoliQuestore di Palermo