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Johnny Stecchino

Name: Johnny Stecchino
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1991
Duration: 102 min
Cast: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Paolo Bonacelli, Franco Volpi, Ivano Marescotti

Taste attributes: comedymonster/alien/supernaturalcrimeromancemafia/gangsterfresh & originalunsavouryimaginarysimplelinearencloseddeep rivalryfighting evillove conquers all

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"Sometimes a banana is just a banana!"

Boxlist takeA larger-than-life, straightforward comedy, dark rather than wholesome. Best if you like the extraordinary over the everyday.

Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: dark · Weight: balanced · Realism: imaginary world · Story: simple · Structure: very linear · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score

7.4/10

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Setting / scale: Small / confined, just how this profile likes it
Pace: Balanced pace, just how this profile likes it
Originality: Fresh / original, just how this profile likes it

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Intricacy: Basic story, where this profile leans smart / intricate
Realism: Imaginary world, where this profile leans balanced realism

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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.

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