If you're looking for a little comedy, we've got just the movie for you. SoHo Meets SoLo presents you with the 1991 Italian comical movie "Johnny Stechino!" In English it translates to Johnny Toothpick. This is a fun film that will hit the spot. So sit back, relax, grab a frap if you will and enjoy this week's pick!! By the way, for those of you who don't speak Italian, this movie DOES have English subtitles. What's this movie about?? Well...
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.
Dante (Roberto Benigni) is the ultimate loser. Nothing seems to work for him - especially in love. Suddenly, a beautiful and rich woman (Nicoletta Braschi) gives him some hope. However, the deal involves Dante going to Sicily where the woman's husband (Roberto Benigni) is an infamous gangster known as Johnny the Toothpick ("stecchino" in Italian). Johnny has denounced some of the local mafiosi to the police so their friends want him dead. So, why not get Dante killed instead.
Info credit: dragmoirR.Radeve, Jeremy Perkins, http://www.imdb.com/; Photo credit: Yahoo images
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