Analyze This

(Warner)

Harold Ramis's box-office hit ($104 million) has Robert De Niro's Mr. V. (a NYC crime boss ostensibly fashioned after John Gotti) making thuggish retorts to his shrink (Billy Crystal in his best role since City Slickers); there's also a delightfully cheesy dream sequence where the duo re-enact the infamous fruit-market hit scene from The Godfather. But for every gag that De Niro and Crystal pull off, the script strands them in eddies of frivolity, and even in a comedy, it's a stretch to watch De Niro cry.