Analyze This

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Analyze This
Directed by Harold Ramis
Produced by Jane Rosenthal
Paula Weinstein
Written by Kenneth Lonergan
Peter Tolan
Starring Robert De Niro
Billy Crystal
Lisa Kudrow
Chazz Palminteri
Joe Viterelli
Music by Howard Shore
Distributed by Warner Brothers
Release date(s) March 5 1999 (USA)
Running time 103 min
Language English
Budget $30,000,000
Followed by Analyze That
IMDb profile

Analyze This is a 1999 movie produced by Warner Brothers Studios. Directed by Harold Ramis, it features Robert De Niro as a gangster and Billy Crystal as a psychiatrist. It was written by screenwriter Peter Tolan and former Naked Angels playwright Kenneth Lonergan. A sequel, Analyze That was released in 2002.

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Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Ben Sobel is a psychiatrist about to get married with a mostly boring life, and unsupportive parents. Paul Vitti, a mob boss, who, for the sake of his job needs to keep his calm, starts suffering panic attacks, and realizes he needs psychological help, especially in light of a major mobster meeting due soon.

Because of a haphazard car accident and some exchange of business cards, the two meet and Vitti bosses Sobel to be his full-time psychiatrist. In the process, Vitti ruins Sobel’s wedding and turns his practice and his life topsy-turvy. In addition, the FBI keep trying to hook Sobel up with microphones to spy on Vitti, which threatens doctor-patient confidentiality, not to mention Sobel’s life.

Slowly but surely, Vitti makes progress as he digs into his youth and questions his choice of profession, which ripples the whole mob with surprise and suspicion.

Spoilers end here.

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