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‘Analyze This’ At 25: Robert De Niro And Billy Crystal Remember Opening Bigger Than ‘Cruel Intentions’ And Beating ‘The Sopranos’ To The Idea
A quarter-century after the release of "Analyze This," Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal reminisced about their collaboration at the Tribeca Festival.
Analyze This faced younger-skewing competition in Cruel Intentions, the Sarah Michelle Gellar/Reese Witherspoon/Ryan Philippe thriller, but came out decisively ahead. Much of the Tribeca conversation covered the development of the film, which was initially written by Kenneth Lonergan, who ended up sharing a screenplay credit with Peter Tolan. Crystal said Billy Wilder had hit on the initial idea of depicting a gangster seeing a therapist all the way back in 1939, though he didn’t end up making a movie based on the premise.
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