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ANALYZE
THIS (1999) |
| Starring:
Robert DeNiro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow, Chazz Palmenteri, Joseph
Rigano, Joe Viterelli, Richard C. Castellano, Molly Shannon, Max Casella,
Bill Macy, Rebecca Schull, Pat Cooper, Leo Rossi and Tony Bennett.
Screenplay by
Peter Tolan, Harold Ramis and
Kenneth Lonergan.
Directed by Harold
Ramis.
Distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures.
Rated R. 103 minutes. |
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Analyze This
Okay, deep dark
secret time here. Don't think less of me as a man after you read
this. but I've never seen one of Robert DeNiro's gangster movies.
Not Godfather II, not Goodfellas, not Casino,
not A Bronx Tale, not Heat, not Ronin. Hell, I
haven't even seen Taxi Driver or Raging Bull.
So I am not the targeted audience for this good-hearted comedy.
Maybe I am even missing a rich vein of satire that bubbles through
it. But, as a DeNiro Cosa Nostra novice, I have to say that
Analyze This is a nice, funny movie, nothing more, nothing
less.
The storyline of a psychologist strong-armed into treating a
panicked wise guy seems to be big now (it's also the idea behind the
HBO series The Sopranos) but it is a clever conceit.
Billy
Crystal gives his best big-screen work in years (probably in the
90s!) Lisa Kudrow continues to be a comic secret weapon who swipes
every scene she shows up in. DeNiro is fine in a role that it
seems he could play in his sleep.
This movie
certainly will not win any awards, but for what it is — a pleasant
diversion — it passes with flying colors.
Jay S.
Jacobs |
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