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Analyze That
Release
Date: March 7th 2003
Distributor: Warner Bros
Certificate: 15
Starring: Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow, Joe Viterelli,
Cathy Moriarty, John Finn
Director: Harold
Ramis
Running Time:
95
mins
Several
years after the events of the original ‘Analyze This’, mobster
Paul Vitti (DeNiro) is in prison and, fearing that someone is trying to
kill him, he pretends to have a nervous breakdown. Alarmed by his singing
show-tunes and collapse into a catatonic state, the prison authorities call
upon the services of Paul’s therapist, Psychiatrist Ben Sobel (Crystal).
When Ben announces that his patient is genuinely ill, the governor agrees to release Paul, but only if Ben takes full responsibility for him. However, as soon as the two of them are in Ben’s car on the way to his New Jersey home, Paul makes a miraculous recovery. He’s managed to fool both Ben and the guards, and he’s out. But Ben intends to make sure that if he got out under false pretences, he’s at least going to stay out of trouble.
For
a while, Paul tries to go straight, even getting proper jobs as a car salesman
and a head waiter, neither of which work out too well. But then he manages
to get a job as consultant for a TV crime show (think “The Sopranos”),
and he is in his element. Unfortunately, the temptation to use his new position
to get back into organized crime is too very strong, and he's soon using
it as a front for his mob activities. Zoom In
When ‘Analyze This’ came out, there were certain similarities between it and the HBO series “The Sopranos” (a mafia boss going to a psychiatrist…) and this latest film exploits the likenesses even more. As DeNiro’s Vitti starts work on the technical details of the Sopranos-like “Little Caesar” TV show (which stars Anthony LaPaglia in the James Gandolfini part) we get some of the best moments in the film, although his renditions of songs from ‘West Side Story’ and Crystal’s initial examination are both great scenes.
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