The Don's Analyst is a TV film that premiered on Showtime in 1997. Starring Robert Loggia

Robert Loggia

Robert Loggia is an American film and television actor and director.- Early life :Loggia, an Italian American, was born on Staten Island, the son of Elena Blandino, a homemaker, and Benjamin Loggia, a shoemaker, both of whom were born in Sicily, Italy...

, it pre-dated the very similarly plotted movie Analyze This

Analyze This

Analyze This is a 1999 gangster comedy film directed by Harold Ramis, who co-wrote the screenplay with playwright Kenneth Lonergan and Peter Tolan. The film stars Robert De Niro as a mafioso and Billy Crystal as a psychiatrist...

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Plot

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 dysfunctional family

Dysfunctional family

A dysfunctional family is a family in which conflict, misbehavior, and often abuse on the part of individual members occur continually and regularly, leading other members to accommodate such actions. Children sometimes grow up in such families with the understanding that such an arrangement is...

 conspires to get him some psychotherapy. So his boys kidnap a "paisan" shrink, and order him to "fix" their father.

Cast

• Rick Aiello - Frankie Leoni
• Robert Cicchini
  Robert Cicchini
  Robert Cicchini is an American film and television actor.Among Cicchini's film appearances are his roles as Lou Pennino in The Godfather: Part III, Jimmy Ozio in Primary Colors and Mitch Casper in The Watcher....
  
   - Donnie Leoni
• Joe Pingue
  Joe Pingue
  Joe Pingue is a Canadian actor.His film credits include The Boondock Saints, Pushing Tin, Repo Men, The Book of Eli and Knockaround Guys....
  
   - Hood #1
• Robert Loggia
  Robert Loggia
  Robert Loggia is an American film and television actor and director.- Early life :Loggia, an Italian American, was born on Staten Island, the son of Elena Blandino, a homemaker, and Benjamin Loggia, a shoemaker, both of whom were born in Sicily, Italy...
  
   - Don Vito Leoni
• Howard Jerome - Tomaso
• Louis Di Bianco - Salvatore
• David Calderisi - Anthony
• Lou Pitoscia - Tommy The Rope
• George Santino - Paul Tondini
• Angie Dickinson
  Angie Dickinson
  Angie Dickinson is an American actress. She has appeared in more than fifty films, including Rio Bravo, Ocean's Eleven, Dressed to Kill and Pay It Forward, and starred on television as Sergeant Suzanne "Pepper" Anderson on the 1970s crime series Police Woman.-Early life:Dickinson, the second of...
  
   - Victoria Leoni
• Angelica Trevena - Stripper
• Alan C. Peterson - Nicky 'Tits' (as Alan Peterson)
• Gino Marrocco - Gino
• Kevin Pollak
  Kevin Pollak
  Kevin Elliot 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...
  
   - Dr. Julian Riceputo
• Lucy Webb
  Lucy Webb
  Lucy Webb is an American comedienne and actress, most famous for her work on the 1980s HBO series Not Necessarily the News.Webb has appeared in multiple films and television programs, including Corrina, Corrina, where she portrayed Shirl....
  
   - Dr. Susan Riceputo
• Joe Flaherty
  Joe Flaherty
  Joe Flaherty is 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...
  
   - Dr. Lowell Royce
• David Bolt - Dr. Jack Schweigert
• Sherilyn Fenn
  Sherilyn Fenn
  Sherilyn Fenn is an American actress and filmmaker. She came to international attention for her performance as Audrey Horne on the 1990 cult TV series Twin Peaks...
  
   - Isabella Leoni
• Paulo Costanzo
  Paulo Costanzo
  Paulo Costanzo 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....
  
   - Young Vito
• Courtney Hawkrigg - Young Victoria
• Daniel DeSanto
  Daniel DeSanto
  Daniel DeSanto is a Canadian actor.He is of Italian descent. Daniel DeSanto is well known for his role in Mean Girls in 2004, however, his claim to fame is stemmed from the TV show Are You Afraid of the Dark? in which he played Tucker. Daniel attended Martingrove Collegiate Institute and...
  
   - Young Vincent
• Joseph Bologna
  Joseph Bologna
  Joseph Bologna is an American actor.-Life and career:Bologna was born in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Brown University, where he majored in art history. After a hitch with the marines, Bologna was hired to produce and direct Manhattan-based TV commercials.The actor has a long history in film...
  
   - Vincent DeMarco
• Peter Blais
  Peter Blais
  Peter Blais is a Canadian actor, born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada who has been in a number of made-for-TV movies and television series. He has won a Golden Sheaf Award for "Best Performance - Male" in The Wager, and in 1999 he was nominated for a Gemini Award for "Best Performance by an Actor in a...
  
   - Dr. Byron Frohlich
• Philip Akin
  Philip Akin
  Philip Akin 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’...
  
  - Dr. Lusting