Taglines: Back in therapy.
Analyze That movie storyline. Near the completion of his sentence in Sing Sing prison, Paul Vitti’s life is threatened by assassins and corrupt guards while incarcerated. He starts singing showtunes from West Side Story to get the attention of Ben Sobel, who previously hung up on him while attending his father’s funeral. The FBI calls in Ben to see if Vitti is really insane.
This appears to be the case, and the FBI approves Ben taking Vitti out of prison, into his own custody, for further therapy. On their way out in Sobel’s car, Vitti reveals that he faked it. Needing some therapy himself after his father’s death, a grieving Sobel talks Vitti into finding a regular job (as requested by the FBI). Vitti attempts to find a legitimate job (he tries a car dealer, a restaurant, and a jewelry store), but his rude manners and paranoia only complicate things further. This ends up in him getting fired each time.
At the same time, Vitti is told by de facto boss Patti LoPresti that the Rigazzi family wants him dead. He responds to this by telling the Rigazzis that he is “out” and seeking a new line of employment. He eventually finds employment working as a technical advisor on the set of a Sopranos-like mafia TV series.
Meanwhile, FBI agents inform Sobel that Vitti has his former crew back together, and may be planning something major. This rouses Sobel’s suspicion, and he visits Vitti. Both get caught up in a car chase with Rigazzi hitmen, which ends up with Vitti escaping. The FBI blames Sobel, and gives him 24 hours to locate Vitti.
After locating Vitti (through Sobel’s son Michael, who is now working as Vitti’s chauffeur), Sobel discovers Vitti is planning a big armored car heist with LoPresti as a partner. He attempts to intervene and talk Vitti out of it but Vitti proceeds and Sobel is forced to go along as well. The crew ambushes the armored car with smoke grenades, and lift it over a fence in the midst of the confusion.
Analyze That is a 2002 American crime comedy film, and a sequel to the 1999 film Analyze This. The film was directed and co-written by Harold Ramis (who also worked on the first film) and stars Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal who respectively reprise their roles as mobster Paul Vitti and psychiatrist Ben Sobel. Other starring are Lisa Kudrow, Joe Viterelli, Cathy Moriarty, Joey Diaz, Jerome Le Page, Joseph Bono, Patrick Marcune and Henry Morales-Ballet.
Analyze That (2002)
Directed by: Harold Ramis
Starring: Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow, Joe Viterelli, Cathy Moriarty, Joey Diaz, Jerome Le Page, Joseph Bono, Patrick Marcune, Henry Morales-Ballet
Screenplay by: Kenneth Lonergan / Peter Tolan
Production Design by: Adam Scher
Cinematography by: Ellen Kuras
Film Editing by: Andrew Mondshein
Costume Design by: Aude Bronson-Howard
Set Decoration by: Beth A. Rubino
Makeup Department: Peter Montagna, Kyra Panchenko
Music by: David Holmes
MPAA Rating: R for language and some sexual content.
Distributed byu: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: December 6, 2002
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