The Freshman
He was on his way to the Dean's List, but he wound up on the hit list.
After a film student gets his belongings stolen, he meets a mobster bearing a startling resemblance to a certain cinematic godfather. Soon, he finds himself caught up in a caper involving endangered species and fine dining.
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Cast
Marlon Brando
Carmine Sabatini, aka Jimmy The Toucan
Matthew Broderick
Clark Kellogg
Bruno Kirby
Victor Ray
Penelope Ann Miller
Tina Sabatini
Frank Whaley
Steve Bushak
Jon Polito
Chuck Greenwald
Kenneth Welsh
Dwight Armstrong
Richard Gant
Lloyd Simpson
Maximilian Schell
Larry London
Paul Benedict
Arthur Fleeber
BD Wong
Edward
Leonardo Cimino
Lorenzo
Gianni Russo
Maitre D’ Gourmet Club
Pamela Payton-Wright
Liz Armstrong
Bert Parks
Bert Parks
James Millington
FBI Man
Geraldine Ronan
Student in Fleeber Classroom
Patricia Andrews
Mall Patron
Andrew Airlie
Mall Patron
Daniel DeSanto
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Reviews
John Chard
Fresh or Ripe?
The Freshman is a sort of comedy drama sprinkled with self aware barbs at film analysis. It’s a great opportunity to see Marlon Brando relaxed and fully playing up the self-parody angle. Plot finds Matthew Broderick as Clark Kellog, a film student arriving in New York who through unfortunate circumstances ends up working for a man who is not too dissimilar from Don Corleone!
Writer and director Andrew Bergman spoofs the Mafia via screwball scenarios and satirical scripting, though the latter is done to death and grows tiresome at the mid-point. Penelope Anne Miller and B.D. Wong get choice support roles and deliver the goods, in fact the casting across the board is spot on, and the tech credits are firmly in the plus column.
It’s all pleasantly executed and moves along at a brisk pace, but a little less satire and more straight laced character comedy wouldn’t have gone amiss. 6/10
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