Analyze This is a 1999 gangster 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. In a voiceover, mob boss Paul Vitti narrates a brief history of the Mafia during 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 when it is raided by... the FBI, and the Mafia doesn't call a nationwide summit again until the present day. Vitti and his best friend Dominic are discussing the upcoming meeting at a restaurant. Dominic warns that the mafia is in deep trouble, due to the FBI's unprecedented success in turning "made" mobsters into informants and putting bosses in prison, not to mention competition from incoming Chinese and Russian gangsters. As they exit the restaurant, Dominic warns Vitti to look out for Young Turk boss Primo Sindone .
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| Release date: | March 5, 1999 |
| Directed by: | Harold Ramis |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 103 Minutes |
| Producer: | Jane Rosenthal, Paula Weinstein |
| Editor: | Christopher Tellefsen, Craig Herring |
| Music by: | Howard Shore |
| Cinematography: | Stuart Dryburgh |
| Screenplay by: | Kenneth Lonergan, Peter Tolan, Harold Ramis |
| Estimated budget: | $30,000,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy |