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The Freshman

Brooks Benedict, Bruno Kirby, Frank Whaley, Harold Lloyd, Hazel Keener

In this farcical comedy, Matthew Broderick plays Clark Kellogg, an aspiring director who arrives in New York City to attend film school. However, moments after he arrives in the city, he's robbed by V...( read more  read more... )ictor Ray (Bruno Kirby), leaving him no money for the $700 in books required by his instructor, Arthur Fleeber (Paul Benedict). A few days later, Clark runs into Victor and demands his money back, but Victor has already lost it (on a horse race in which he wasn't entirely sure the animal he bet on was a horse). Instead, he offers to fix Clark up with a job with his boss, an importer and exporter named Carmone Sabatini (Marlon Brando), who bears a stunning resemblance to Don Corleone in The Godfather. Clark's adventures with Sabatini are just beginning when he's instructed to pick up a package from the airport. Clark is expecting it to be contraband, and he's right, but not in the way he figured -- it turns out he's accepting delivery of a komodo dragon, which is to be served at a gourmet club specializing in dishes prepared from endangered species. Marlon Brando's hilarious comic variation on one of his best-known roles is the highlight of this film, but Bruno Kirby and Paul Benedict also deliver fine comic turns, and Matthew Broderick copes nobly with his role as the film's lone normal person.~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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  • SirPant
    September 23, 2009
    SirPant
    Good fun but Brando's spoof of his role in the Godfather seemed a little ungrateful.
  • wellmeetagain
    December 3, 2007
    wellmeetagain
    Tries to make the grade, but flunks out instead.
  • YosemiteSamFan
    August 4, 2007
    YosemiteSamFan
    A good comedy with Matthew Broderick working for a real Godfather-clone (Marlon Brando). There are great scenes involving a Komodo Dragon. Bruno Kirby is great in this one.
  • garyX
    January 7, 2007
    garyX
    Mildly amusing gangster comedy that probably would've disappeared under the radar if it weren't for Marlon Brando's self parodying turn as an ageing mobster.
  • Collegekid
    December 31, 2006
    Collegekid
    Good Flick, better than average.
  • jam233
    December 20, 2009
    jam233
    Very entertaining, with a terrific cast. Matthew Broderick is well cast, Marlon Brando is awesome and Frank Whaley scores in a supporting role. It doesn?t always work, but it works enough for me to recommend it.
  • sportboy
    December 15, 2009
    sportboy
    Review coming soon..
  • ythelastman89
    November 20, 2009
    ythelastman89
    Aside from the above average performance from Marlon Brando, this a completely uninteresting and bland film. It is a lazy attempt at a coming of age story, that is extremely cheesy and predictable. Matthew Broderick was terrible and had zero personality.
  • myfavchords
    August 25, 2009
    myfavchords
    Marlon Brando does a nice send-up of his Godfather role. Matthew Broderick is also good in this film. There are a number of funny moments spread out through the movie.
  • melbrakel
    July 18, 2009
    melbrakel
    "Every word I say, by definition, is a promise."

    Thought this was a pretty good film! Loved seeing Brando sort of reprise his Vito Corleone role, and it had a lot of humorous moments. Very enjoyable.

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