Analyze This.

The world's favorite mafia mob is back. Robert De Niro seems to be the chosen man to take on all such roles and he does so with great pleasure.

Released in 1995, starring Lisa Kudrow as the future wife of Billy Crystal (the shrink) this film is about how a therapist manages to help and save the life of a mafia don. To analyse this film properly one should not focus on Robert De Niro, who is the god of gangster films, rather focus on Billy Crystal who is making his debut on the blog. Playing a similar role to one that I have seen Robin Williams take on in the film 'Good Will Hunting' one would expect the same kind of calm and yet at the same time impatient character that we saw from Williams. In the therapy room this is not the case.  We get a lot of what he might want to say to a client but doesn't actually say it. This makes him immediately different from Williams and make it his own character. I believe that of these films 'Good Will Hunting' was made first and so it is a safe bet to assume that the character was based on the original therapist in 'Good Will Hunting'. Now that we have established this we can move on.

Billy Crystal- where to start. Solid performance from him. Emotion at all the right times whilst still keeping some client confidentiality. I am not entirely sure that he would be able to tell his fiancee (Lisa Kudrow) the name of his clients but let us forget that because this is a film for us to enjoy so we shall let it slide. The best moment of the film was probably when the man 'killed himself' by attempting to shoot De Niro and ending up being thrown out of a seven story window, disrupting the wedding of the therapist who then goes running into his clients room to complain about how he didn't manage to get married because he ran away from the wedding to complain about the death of a person who left a note saying 'I am killing myself, signed the guy who killed himself'.

Nice to see Lisa Kudrow in something that wasn't her role as Phoebe Buffet in the TV series 'Friends' or a cheesy romantic comedy which isn't worth watching. The role was perfect for her- a little whiney but nonetheless very good and very supportive.