Analyze That (2002)

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Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Rating: R
Release Date: Dec 6, 2002
Running Time: 100 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Mob boss Paul Vitti is nearing the end of his term in Sing Sing, and the FBI agents monitoring him are baffled. Day after day they watch as New York's most notorious gangland figure walks around his cell in a semi–catatonic stupor, occasionally breaking into songs from West Side Story. Is Vitti having a nervous breakdown because of recent threats on his life by a rival family, or is his odd behavior merely a foxy ploy to get him sprung from jail early? The FBI isn't sure, and neither is his former psychotherapist Ben Sobel, who gets called in to consult on the case. The last time Sobel treated Vitti, he tried to get to the source of his debilitating anxiety attacks, but barely scratched the surface. It will take time to examine the demons still lurking in Vitti's mind and help put him on the straight and narrow--time that Sobel doesn't want to give. The truth is, Sobel has problems of his own. His father has just died, plunging him into an identity crisis in both his personal and professional lives. Furthermore, he knows his wife Laura will be furious if he allows the unpredictable Vitti back into their lives. But when Vitti is granted a conditional release into Sobel's care and custody, becoming his patient again and--even worse--his houseguest, the reluctant psychiatrist finds that he has no choice. In order to get peace back in his life he must help the troubled gangster sort out his psyche, find gainful employment and go straight--which proves easier said than done.
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Patty LoPresti
Rigazzi Gunman
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rating December 3, 2002
Robert De Niro scored laughs as paul Vitti, the mob boss who entered therapy with Dr. Ben Sobel (Billy Crystal), in 1999's Analyze This. The movie made big bucks, which explains why the two stars have reunited for Analyze That. There's no creative reason.

The sequel, also directed by Harold Ramis, is painfully padded. At first you grin watching De Niro fake being nuts to get out of prison. He croons tunes from West Side Story, including "I Feel Pretty." "I'm half a fag already," he says in a… Continued

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The team from the successful 1999 comedy Analyze This return for a second helping. Newly paroled gangster Paul Vitti turns to his trusty psychiatrist Dr. Sobel to keep him out of jail--and out of the mob.

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Analyze That starts off with mob boss Paul Vitti (Robert De Niro) nearing the end of his prison term in Sing Sing. When he realizes that a rival family has put a hit on him, he fakes craziness as a way out of the slammer. Vitti does this by singing the entire score to West Side Story over… Continued