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The Don's Analyst

R
Comedy
5/10(2 ratings)

Don Vito Leoni, the Godfather, is clinically depressed. The world has changed and he hasn't. He'd like to retire, but if he left the "family business" to his two idiot sons, they'd be dead in a minute. So he decides to go legit, which convinces everyone that he must be completely off the deep end. To preserve their cushy lives, his dysfuntional family conspires to get him some psycho-therepy. So his boys kidnap a "piasan" shrink and order him to "fix" their father. This film, which premired on Showtime, pre-dated the very similarly plotted "Analyze This" by over a year.

09-06-1997
1h 45m
The Don's Analyst
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Main Cast

Kevin Pollak

Kevin Pollak

Kevin Pollak is an American actor, impressionist, game show host, and comedian. He started performing stand-up comedy at the age of 10 and touring professionally at the age of 20. In 1988, Pollak landed a role in George Lucas' Willow, directed by Ron Howard, and began his acting career.

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Robert Loggia

Robert Loggia

Salvatore "Robert" Loggia (January 3, 1930 – December 4, 2015) was an American actor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Jagged Edge (1985) and won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor for Big (1988). In a career spanning over sixty years, Loggia performed in many films, including The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), three Pink Panther films, An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), Scarface (1982), Prizzi's Honor (1985), Oliver & Company (1988), Innocent Blood (1992), Independence Day (1996), Lost Highway (1997), Return to Me (2000), and Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012). Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Loggia, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Angie Dickinson

Angie Dickinson

Angeline Dickinson (née Brown; born September 30, 1931) is an American actress. She began her career on television, appearing in many anthology series during the 1950s, before landing her breakthrough role in Gun the Man Down (1956) with James Arness and the Western film Rio Bravo (1959), for which she received the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year. In her six decade career, Dickinson has appeared in more than 50 films, including China Gate (1957), Ocean's 11 (1960), The Sins of Rachel Cade (1961), Jessica (1962), Captain Newman, M.D. (1963), The Killers (1964), The Art of Love (1965), The Chase (1966), Point Blank (1967), Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971), The Outside Man (1972) and Big Bad Mama (1974). From 1974 to 1978, Dickinson starred as Sergeant Suzanne "Pepper" Anderson in the NBC crime series Police Woman, for which she received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama and three Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series nominations. As lead actress, she starred in Brian De Palma's erotic crime thriller Dressed to Kill (1980), for which she received a Saturn Award for Best Actress. During her later career, Dickinson starred in several television movies and miniseries, also playing supporting roles in films such as Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1994), Sabrina (1995), Pay It Forward (2000) and Big Bad Love (2001). Description above from the Wikipedia article  Angie Dickinson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Sherilyn Fenn

Sherilyn Fenn

Sherilyn Fenn (born Sheryl Ann Fenn) is an American actress and author.[1] She came to attention for her performance as Audrey Horne on the television series Twin Peaks (1990–1991, 2017) for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award. She is also known for her roles in Of Mice and Men, Ruby, Boxing Helena and Rude Awakening, and for portraying actress Elizabeth Taylor in Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story.

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Joe Flaherty

Joe Flaherty

Joe Flaherty (June 21, 1941 - April 1, 2024) was an American-Canadian actor and comedian. He is best known for his work on the Canadian sketch comedy SCTV, from 1976 to 1984, and as Harold Weir on Freaks and Geeks. He is currently a judge on The Second City's Next Comedy Legend.

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Joe Pingue

Joe Pingue

Canadian born character actor known for Book of Eli, Pacific Rim, Room, Blindness, Anon, Pompeii, The Glass Castle and The Boondock Saints.

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Louis Di Bianco

Louis Di Bianco

Louis Di Bianco is a professional screen and stage actor with international credits and more than thirty years experience. He has starred and costarred in a wide variety of dramatic and comic roles in numerous feature films, MOW’s and episodic TV shows. His professional on camera acting classes are in constant demand. As well, he has written two one-act plays, two full-length plays, and a screenplay. Louis Di Bianco is a member of SAG, Equity, and ACTRA. He holds dual citizenship in the United States and Canada and works freely in both countries.

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Gino Marrocco

Gino Marrocco

He left Alliste (Lecce) Italy at the age of thirteen to emigrate to Canada, Toronto, where, thanks to a long career as an actor, his image and talent have been appreciated in cinemas around the world. It dates back to about thirty years ago the last time Gino Marrocco (at the registry office Egidio Giuseppe) had returned full of "nostalgia" to Salento (Puglia), the place of his origins that he carried always and everywhere with him, in his heart. To give news of his death due to an incurable illness, at the age of 79 years old in April 2019, was his daughter Ashley. Gino was born in Alliste, while the nearby Felline was the place of origin of his dear "Mamma Nena". Before joining his father Augusto, who had emigrated to Canada sometime earlier, Marrocco had attended secondary school in Gallipoli

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Paulo Costanzo

Paulo Costanzo

Paulo Costanzo  (born September 21, 1978) is a Canadian actor who is best-known for his roles in the 2000 comedy Road Trip, the sitcom Joey which ran from 2004 to 2006, and as Evan R. Lawson in the current USA Network series Royal Pains. Costanzo was born in Brampton, Ontario. His mother is a singer/songwriter and his father an artist. Costanzo is of half-Italian ancestry. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paulo Costanzo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Daniel DeSanto

Daniel DeSanto

Daniel DeSanto is a Canadian actor and voice actor. He is of Italian descent. Daniel DeSanto is most known for playing Tucker on Are You Afraid of the Dark?, his 2004 role as Jason in Mean Girls, the TV show The Magic School Bus in which he voices Carlos Ramon, and for voicing Ray on the Beyblade series and voicing Blaine on Totally Spies. Daniel attended Martingrove Collegiate Institute and graduated in 1999. After attending MCI, he then attended Ryerson University for Film Studies.

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Philip Akin

Philip Akin

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Philip Akin (born April 18, 1950) is a Canadian actor who has been active for over thirty years in stage, film, and television. He has had featured roles in major American films such as The Sum of All Fears, S.W.A.T., and Get Rich or Die Tryin’. He has also done much voice work, including voicing the character of Bishop for the X-Men animated series and Tripp Hansen in Monster Force. Akin was born in Kingston, Jamaica as a middle brother of five sons. His parents moved to Oshawa, Ontario in 1953, and he and his brothers followed suit the next year. He has lived there ever since. Shortly after attending high school, Akin attended Toronto’s Ryerson Theatre School. In 1975, he became the school’s first acting graduate, landing a role just a few days later in a Shaw Festival production of Caesar and Cleopatra. In 1983 Akin began studying Yoshinkan Aikido and is presently a 5th degree black belt in that art. He has also trained in Jing Mo Kung Fu and Tai Chi Chuan. Akin first came to prominence in the early 1980s when he performed on the zany comedy series Bizarre. Other recognizable roles include computer expert Norton Drake from War of the Worlds, a Canadian television series that went off the air in 1990. His recurring role as Charlie DeSalvo in Highlander: The Series has also brought him much recognition. In Shake Hands with the Devil he portrays Kofi Annan, then United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations. In 2007, Akin will be performing at the Stratford Festival of Canada, a prestigious summer-long celebration of theatre held each year in Stratford, Ontario, Canada. He is cast in the title role of William Shakespeare’s Othello, and also in the role of Crooks in the Festival’s rendition of John Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men. Phil Akin can also be seen in a long list of guest appearances on television series filmed in Canada, for example: F/X: The Series, Mutant X, and most recently, Flashpoint (2008). Akin is a founding member and currently the Artistic Director of the Obsidian Theatre Company, a Canadian theatre company comprising seasoned actors of African descent, devoted to the work of blacks. Akin is divorced, with one child. Description above from the Wikipedia article Philip Akin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Frank Crudele

Frank Crudele

Frank Crudele è un attore italiano. Nato a Bari, in una famiglia di origini canadesi, è attore di cinema, teatro e fiction. Ha recitato in vari lavori televisivi, tra cui Un medico in famiglia, Ho sposato un calciatore, Gente di mare e Gente di mare 2. Ha lavorato in lingua inglese, francese e spagnola.

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Movie Details

Production Info

Director:
David Jablin
Production:
Imagination Productions, Janson Media, Paramount Pictures, Showtime Networks

Key Crew

Casting:
Marc Hirschfeld
Director of Photography:
Levie Isaacks
Executive Producer:
David Jablin
Producer:
Larry Rapaport
Stunts:
Marco Bianco

Locations and Languages

Country:
US
Filming:
US
Languages:
en