Analyze This is a 1999 crime 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 a psychiatrist. A sequel, Analyze That, was released in 2002.
Prologue: In voiceover, mob boss Paul Vitti (De Niro) narrates a brief history of the Mafia during the year 1957: in the wake of Albert Anastasia's death, the dispute over whether...
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Analyze This is a 1999 crime 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 a psychiatrist. A sequel, Analyze That, was released in 2002.
Prologue: In voiceover, mob boss Paul Vitti (De Niro) narrates a brief history of the Mafia during the year 1957: in the wake of Albert Anastasia's death, the dispute over whether Vito Genovese, Carlo Gambino or Joe Bananas will ascend to mob supremacy, results in the Apalachin Meeting in upstate New York. The meeting breaks up early when it is raided by the F.B.I., and the mafia has never tried calling a nationwide summit since then... until now.
Vitti (De Niro) and his avuncular best friend, Dominic (Joe Rigano) are discussing the upcoming meeting at a restaurant. Dominic warns that the mafia is in deep trouble, with the F.B.I.'s unprecedented success in turning "made" mobsters into informants and putting bosses in...
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