Analyze This (1999)

Plotzle Original · Puzzle #3 · March 29, 2026 · Comedy / Crime

Six plot descriptions for Analyze This (1999). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. Someone begins leaving anonymous behavioral assessments of residents on doorsteps in a suburban neighborhood and the homeowners association hires a disgraced private investigator to identify the writer before reputations collapse completely.
2. A mob boss experiencing panic attacks forces a psychiatrist to treat him before an important meeting, and the psychiatrist reluctantly attempts to resolve the gangster's emotional problems while facing danger from the criminal world.
3. An alcoholic data analyst gets hired by a cartel to optimize their distribution routes but spends most meetings deflecting questions about his trembling hands and divorces while crunching numbers.
4. A compulsive gambler attends court-ordered therapy sessions where he and his counselor devise elaborate insurance fraud schemes together while discussing his childhood abandonment issues and financial ruin.
5. A woman discovers her late father's storage unit contains detailed psychological profiles he created of everyone in their small town and she uses them for blackmail to pay his debts.
6. Two morgue attendants in Detroit develop a darkly comedic podcast where they analyze crime scene evidence from their workplace but accidentally expose corruption within the police department's evidence handling procedures.