Analyze This (1999)

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Written by Kenneth Lonergan, Peter Tolan

Directed by Harold Ramis

Also known as "Analízame", "Analyse moi ça", "Analyse This", "Analyse-Moi Ça", "Analyse-moi ça!", "Mafia Blues", "Máfia no Divã"

Running Time: 104 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 1999

Rating: 15 Certificate

Production Country: USA

Filmed in Colour

When Dr Ben Sobel (Billy Crystal) shunts a car at the traffic lights, he has no idea of what he is driving into. The car's boot swings open to reveal a trussed body. He hands his business card to Jelly (Joe Viterelli), the driver and the right hand man of mob boss Paul Vitti (Robert De Niro). In turn, Jelly suggests to his boss that he visit the psychiatrist to relieve his nervous tension.

A reluctant Vitti shows up to see Sobel, but he remains unconvinced of the usefulness of the exercise, particularly when he is told that there isn't a ten minute cure. There's some cute situation comedy as Vitti struggles to overcome some of his suspicions.

Gradually Vitti gains faith in the treatment and begins to see more of Sobel. The doctor is trying hard to get married and has his own problems in winning over his prospective in-laws, even without a mobster with mental poor health knocking on his door at four in the morning.

But all the tension between himself and the don seems minor when he has to appear at a meeting of all the regional crime chiefs and persuade 500 years of living Sicilian history that he's a bona fide crook.

It's probably the best scene in the film, and Crystal doesn't disappoint.

Cast

Image for Robert de NiroRobert de NiroPaul Vitti
Image for Billy CrystalBilly CrystalDr. Ben Sobel
Image for Lisa KudrowLisa KudrowLaura MacNamara Sobel
Chazz PalminteriPrimo Sidone
Kresimir Novakovic'50s Gangster
Bart TangrediYoung Vitti Sr.
Michael StrakaYoung Dominic Manetta
Joseph RiganoDominic Manetta
Joe ViterelliJelly
Richard C. CastellanoJimmy Boots
Molly ShannonCaroline
Max CasellaNicky Shivers
Frank PietrangolareTuna
Kyle SabihyMichael Sobel
Image for Bill MacyBill MacyDr. Isaac Sobel

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