Analyze This

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 psychologist. It was written by screenwriter Peter Tolan and former Naked Angels playwright Kenneth Lonergan. A sequel, Analyze That was released in 2002.

Plot

Ben Sobel is a psychologist about to get married with a mostly boring life, and unsupportive parents. Paul Vitti, a notorious gangster, who, for the integrity 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.

Related Topics:
Psychologist - Gangster - Panic attack

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

Related Topics:
FBI - Life

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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.

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