Analyze That

Starring: Billy Crystal, Robert De Niro Director: Harold Ramis Original UK Premiere: 2003 Dvd Release: 15th September, 2003 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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Analyze That is a 2002 movie produced by Warner Brothers Studios. It is a sequel to the popular 1999 mafia/therapy comedy Analyze This. Directed by Harold Ramis, it once more features Robert De Niro as a gangster & Billy Crystal as a psychiatrist. // Cathy Moriarty-Gentile as Patti LoPresti. Nearing the completion of his sentence in Sing Sing prison, Paul Vittis life is threatened by assassins. He fakes insanity & starts singing showtunes from West Side Story. This draws the attention of Ben Sobel, who organises Vitti to be released into his custody. Needing some therapy himself after his fathers death, a grieving Sobel talks Vitti into finding a regular job. Vitti attempts to find a legitimate job, but to no avail. At the same time, he also discovers that the Rigazzi family are the ones who want him dead. He reacts to this by telling the Rigazzis that he is out & seeking a new line of work. He finds employment working as a technical advisor on the set of a mafia TV series. Meanwhile, FBI agents inform Sobel that Vitti has his old crew back together & may be planning something big.

Analyze That has more bada bing than its lukewarm box office reception would lead you to expect. Analyze This had the advantage of a then-fresh idea, Robert De Niro as a neurotic mob boss seeking therapy with reluctant shrink Billy Crystal, but that ideas stale , so this sequel relies on established chemistry & zesty dialogue that matches the original. Theres nothing wrong with a retread when its this funny, & De Niros latter-day penchant for comedy suits him well when, as kingpin Paul Vitti, he lures Dr Sobel into a prison breakout scheme involving faked catatonia & West Side Story show tunes. The contrived plot involves Vittis criminal comeback. Unfortunately, theres little room for Lisa Kudrow as Sobels sarcastic wife, but De Niros Raging Bull co-star Cathy Moriarty-Gentile is welcomed as a rival mob queen. You want a comedy masterpiece? Fuhgeddaboudit. You want 95 minutes of easy fun? Its right here... & dont miss those obligatory outtakes. ,

Billy Crystal is an American actor, writer, producer & film director. He was born in Long Beach, New York to Jewish parents. Crystals earliest prominent role was as Jodie Dallas on Soap, one of the first gay characters portrayed on American television. He was scheduled to appear on the first episode of Saturday Night Live, but his sketch was cut. After hosting a show years later, in 1984, he joined the cast. His most famous recurring sketch was his parody of Fernando Lamas, a smarmy talkshow host whose catch phrase, You look mahvelous! became a media sensation, He appeared briefly in Rob Reiner s 1984 rockumentary This Is Spinal Tap. In 1986, Crystal started hosting Comic Relief on HBO with Robin Williams & Whoopi Goldberg. Comic Relief, which was founded in 1986 by Andy Kaufman sidekick, Bob Zmuda, raises money for homeless men, women & children in the United States. Crystal hosted the Academy Awards broadcast in 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1997, 1998, 2000 & 2004. Throw Momma from the Train - as Larry Donner. Posters Of Billy Crystal

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Robert De Niro is an acclaimed American film actor who is noted for having starred in several of director Martin Scorsese s films. Praised for his commitment to his roles, De Niro gained 60 pounds & learned how to box for his portrayal of Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull, ground his teeth for Cape Fear & learned to play the saxophone for New York, New York. Although not articulate, De Niro is generally considered a skilled observer of physical tics & details & an intense perfectionist. A graduate of the Little Red School House, De Niro made his first film appearance in 1968 in Greetings. After that, he played some major & minor roles in other films not widely seen, until he gained popularity with his role in Bang the Drum Slowly. He began to work with Martin Scorsese in the same year when the two collaborated on Mean Streets. Later Scorsese films in which De Niro has participated are Taxi Driver, New York, New York, Raging Bull, The King of Comedy, Goodfellas, Cape Fear & Casino. Posters Of Analyze This

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Harold Ramis is an American actor, director & writer. His best known acting roles are as Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters & Russell Ziskey in Stripes. After graduating from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri his first job was as a mental-ward orderly. Ramis worked as joke editor for Playboy magazine. He performed with Chicagos Second City improvisational comedy troupe & the Broadway revue National Lampoon s Lemmings. Ramis was also a writer & performer on the SCTV television series. Although occasionally mistaken for a Canadian, Ramis is actually from Chicago, Illinois, USA. He has worked frequently with Bill Murray & Ivan Reitman. Posters Of Analyze This

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