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.
Roberto Benigni
as Dante Ceccarini / Johnny Stecchino
Nicoletta Braschi
as Maria
Paolo Bonacelli
as D'Agata
Franco Volpi
as Ministro
Ivano Marescotti
as Dr. Randazzo
Turi Scalia
as Giudice
Loredana Romito
as Gianna
Alessandro De Santis
as Lillo
Sal Borgese
as Ignazio
Gaetano Campisi
as Picciotto in auto
Giulio Donnini
as Cardinale
Domenico Minutoli
as Questore di Palermo
