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.
Plot
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 , and the mafia has never tried calling a nationwide summit since then... until now.