Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Age rating
- 15
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
Why tonight?
- In Italian — subtitles on.
The 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. 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.
- sicily
- italy
- gangster
- bus driver
- fool
- femme fatale
- mafia
- falling in love
- sicilian mafia
- doppelgänger
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Roberto Benigni
Dante Ceccarini / Johnny Stecchino
Nicoletta Braschi
Maria
Paolo Bonacelli
D'Agata
Franco Volpi
Ministro
- Ivano Marescotti — Dr. Randazzo
- Turi Scalia — Giudice
- Loredana Romito — Gianna
- Alessandro De Santis — Lillo
- Sal Borgese — Ignazio
- Gaetano Campisi — Picciotto in auto
- Giulio Donnini — Cardinale
- Domenico Minutoli — Questore di Palermo
- Georgia O'Brien — Moglie del ministro
- Ignazio Pappalardo — Cozzamara
- Gigliola Reina
- Directed
- Roberto Benigni
- Written
- Roberto Benigni, Vincenzo Cerami
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 1,073 ratings
- Studio
- Cecchi Gori Group Tiger Cinematografica, Penta Film
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