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The Don's Analyst
2026-11-15 08:23:49 · Cedar Herald Index
The Don's Analyst is an American television film that starred Robert Loggia, and premiered on Showtime on September 6, 1997. It predated the very similarly plotted 1999 movie Analyze This.
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 conspires to get him some psychotherapy. So his boys kidnap a "paisan" shrink, and order him to "fix" their father.

Cast
Robert Loggia as Don Vito Leoni
Rick Aiello as Frankie Leoni
Robert Cicchini as Donnie Leoni
Howard Jerome as Tomaso
Louis Di Bianco as Salvatore
David Calderisi as Anthony
Lou Pitoscia as Tommy The Rope
George Santino as Paul Tondini
Angie Dickinson as Victoria Leoni
Kevin Pollak as Dr. Julian Riceputo
Lucy Webb as Dr. Susan Riceputo
Joe Flaherty as Dr. Lowell Royce
David Bolt as Dr. Jack Schweigert
Sherilyn Fenn as Isabella Leoni
Paulo Costanzo as Young Vito Leoni
Daniel DeSanto as Young Vincent DeMarco
Joseph Bologna as Vincent DeMarco
Peter Blais as Dr. Byron Frohlich
Philip Akin as Dr. Lusting
References
External links
1997 films
National Lampoon films
American television films
1997 comedy films
1990s English-language films
