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New York City | Mafia Boss
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Favorite Comedy Team | 2000 | Robert De
Favorite Supporting Actress Comedy | 2000 | Lisa
Top Box Office Films | 2000 | Howard
Funniest Motion Picture | 2000
Best Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | 2000
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | 2000 | Robert De
Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture Leading Role | 2000 | Robert De
Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture | 2000 | Lisa
Best Edited Feature Film Comedy or Musical | 2000 | Christopher
Best Performance in a Feature Film Supporting Young Actor | 2000 | Kyle
Best Comedy | 1999
Budget 80,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 176,885,658 USD
It was very important to Robert De Niro that the movie felt authentic. He and director Harold Ramis would drive around Little Italy in New York City looking for real people to cast.
Martin Scorsese was first approached to direct the film, but turned it down.
According to Robert De Niro, he and Billy Crystal briefly toyed with the idea of co-directing the movie before deciding to offer it to Harold Ramis, who accepted.
Originally, the scene in which the couple is discussing their problems in bed with Dr. Sobel (Billy Crystal) was supposed to include only the woman and Dr. Sobel, but Crystal thought it would be funnier if the two of them were present. The man playing the husband is the head of the sound department for this movie, Les Lazarowitz, who, being a heavyset guy, made the scene even more comical. He deferred the sound mixing duties to his assistant, while this scene was being filmed. Coincidentally, Lazarowitz was the boom operator (uncredited) in the fruit stand scene of The Godfather (1972), which is parodied in this movie.
Robert De Niro suggested Chazz Palminteri for the role of Primo Sidone, having worked with him on A Bronx Tale (1993).
"Dr. Ben Sobel: What happened with your wife last night? Boss Paul Vitti: I wasn't with my wife, I was with my girlfriend. Dr. Ben Sobel: Are you having marriage problems? Boss Paul Vitti: No. Dr. Ben Sobel: Then why do you have a girlfriend? Boss Paul Vitti: What, are you gonna start moralizing on me? Dr. Ben Sobel: No, I'm not, I'm just trying to understand, why do you have a girlfriend? Boss Paul Vitti: I do things with her I can't do with my wife. Dr. Ben Sobel: Why can't you do them with your wife? Boss Paul Vitti: Hey, that's the mouth she kisses my kids goodnight with! What are you, crazy?"
"Boss Paul Vitti: Whoever did that thing to you-know-who, that good friend of mine, they're trying to do that to me now, and I'm having a lot of feelings about that. And I'm... and I'm trying to get some... some... Dr. Ben Sobel: [whispering] "Closure" Boss Paul Vitti: ...closure on that, ya know? Primo: What kind of feelings? Boss Paul Vitti: I'm... I'm very angry, I'm feeling very angry about that. I'm... I'm really... uh... I'm enraged, I'm feeling very, very mad about that. Primo: So why are you telling me? Boss Paul Vitti: Why am I telling you? Like you don't know nothing about it, huh? You don't know... what? Primo: I don't know what your talking about. Boss Paul Vitti: Okay, whatever, whatever. I'm just trying to... Dr. Ben Sobel: [Whispering] "Tell you about my feelings..." Boss Paul Vitti: ...tell you about my feelings and that, uh... Dr. Ben Sobel: [Whispering] "I'm angry..." Boss Paul Vitti: ...I'm angry and... and that anger is a... Dr. Ben Sobel: [Whispering] "Blocked wish...?" Boss Paul Vitti: ...a blocked wish. And I'm looking forward to seeing you... next week at that thing, and then I can... unblock that angered wish... and then hopefully... hopefully you make one more move on me you motherfucker I'll fuckin' cut your fuckin' balls off I'll shove them up your fuckin' ass, I'll fuckin' bury you, I'll put fuckin' ice picks in your eyes, I'll chop your fuckin' eyeballs, I'll send them to your fuckin' family so they can eat 'em for dessert. You understand me? Primo: Hey Paul... Boss Paul Vitti: What? Primo: Fuck you. Boss Paul Vitti: You motherfucker! Primo: [to Moony] You get a dictionary and find out what this "closure" is. If that's what he's going to hit us with, I want to know what it is Boss Paul Vitti: [to Dr. Sobel] Yeah. How was that? Dr. Ben Sobel: It was going great until the... cutting off of the balls and shoving it up his ass."
