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'''''Analyze This''''' is a 1999 crime-comedy film, starring [[Robert De Niro]] and [[Billy Crystal]]. Directed by Harold Ramis.
Paul Vitti (De Niro) is a high-ranking mafia member, involved in organizing the first nationwide summit since 1957. The Mafia is under threat by the FBI, as well as by their Chinese and Russian rivals in organized crime. Vitti also has to avoid assassination attempts by young upstarts. Meanwhile, psychiatrist Ben Sobel (Crystal) is agonizing over his problematic relationship with his son, how boring his patients are and his upcoming second marriage.
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Interestingly, released the same year as the start of [[The Sopranos|a TV series involving a Mafioso and his psychiatrist]]. Whether one inspired the other, or it was just coincidence, or if there was just "something in the air" isn't entirely clear.
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* [[Acronym Confusion]]:
{{quote|'''FBI Agent Steadman:''' Dr. Sobel, Ma'am: I'm Agent Steadman, Agent Ricci, Agent Provano, Federal Bureau Of Investigation, OCD.
'''Dr. Ben Sobel:''' Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?
'''FBI Agent Ricci:''' Organized Crime Division. We need to talk.
* [[Completely Different Title]]: The French title is closer to ''Mafia Blues''.
** In Polish, it's ''Gangster's Depression''.
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'''Jelly:''' ''[starting to write]'' No, but they will.
'''Sobel:''' Oh, let me guess! "LIFE IS BULLSHIT! I CAN'T FUCKING TAKE IT ANYMORE! SIGNED, THE DEAD GUY!"
'''Jelly:''' [[Fat Idiot|That's a good idea.]]
* [[Deconstructive Parody]]: Of the gangster genre and the adverse effects living like a criminal will produce.
* [[Dead-Man Switch]]: If anyone kills Vitti, his documents on the other mobsters will go public.
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* [[Epiphany Therapy]]: Vitti keeps expecting this, but it's never as neat and tidy as he wishes it would be.
* [[Humiliation Conga]]: What dignity Vitti retains at the end of the movie is utterly destroyed at the beginning of the second as he {{spoiler|clowns in front of the other prisoners to keep them from trying to kill him}}.
* [[I Have Many Names]]: Parodied when Sobel tries to fit in amongst the gangsters. Apparently, he's also "Benny the Groin
* [[I Have This Friend]]: Vitti tries this, but it doesn't work.
* [[Indulgent Fantasy Segue]]: Sobel's fantasy of telling a patient ''exactly'' what he thinks of her.
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* [[Precision F-Strike]]: " ... but the people who know me, call me the fucking Doctor." Sobel introduces himself to the gangster summit meeting.
* [[Verb This]]
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Vitti had been fighting with his dad and was very angry at him, but
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[[Category:Films of the 1990s]]
[[Category:Analyze This]]
[[Category:Comedy Films]]
[[Category:Film]]
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