Analyze This
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| Directed by | Harold Ramis |
| Produced by |
Paula Weinstein Jane Rosenthal |
| Screenplay by |
Kenneth Lonergan Peter Tolan Harold Ramis |
| Story by | Kenneth Lonergan Peter Tolan |
| Starring | |
| Music by | Howard Shore |
| Cinematography | Stuart Dryburgh |
| Edited by | Craig P. Herring Christopher Tellefsen |
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| Distributed by |
Warner Bros. Roadshow Entertainment (Australia & New Zealand) |
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Running time
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103 minutes |
| Country | United States Australia |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $80 million |
| Box office | $176.9 million |
Analyze This is a 1999 gangster comedy film directed by Harold Ramis, who co-wrote the screenplay with playwright Kenneth Lonergan and Peter Tolan. The film stars Robert De Niro as a mafioso and Billy Crystal as his psychiatrist. A sequel, Analyze That, was released in 2002.
Mob boss Paul Vitti narrates a brief history of the Mafia: in the wake of Albert Anastasia's death, the dispute over who among Vito Genovese, Carlo Gambino and Joe Bananas will ascend to mob supremacy results in the Apalachin Meeting in upstate New York. The meeting is raided by the FBI, and the Mafia does not call a summit again until the present day.
Vitti and his consigliere Dominic are discussing the upcoming meeting and the Mafia's present-day problems. However, just as Dominic warns Vitti to look out for Primo Sindone (an up-and-coming Mafia Don who wants to be capo di tutti capi), gunmen drive past and kill Dominic.
Psychiatrist Ben Sobel is dealing with his own problems: his son from his first marriage listens to his sessions, his patients are not challenging enough, and his Miami wedding to Laura MacNamara is coming soon. Sobel unknowingly rear-ends a car belonging to Vitti and the trunk opens, revealing a man bound and gagged inside, which Sobel and his son do not notice because they are arguing. Jelly, one of Vitti's made men, takes the blame, but Sobel gives Jelly his business card in case he changes his mind about compensation.
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