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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.
kevin2019
Feb 20, 2026 · via TMDB
"The Freshman" is a very entertaining and satisfying film on every level when it could have been nothing more than a one joke, one dimensional novelity based upon the very appetising prospect not of a Komondo dragon banquet, but of watching Marlon Brando successfully reprising his Academy Award winning triumph as Don Vito Corleone purely for laughs this time around. Of course, this limited idea would have been absolutely exhausted in no time at all, so it is incredibly fortunate there is a solid story worth bothering about which is extremely well structured and enjoyably developed and humor which is especially worth relishing as Clark Kellogg (Matthew Broderick) inexorably finds himself sinking ever deeper into a life threatening quagmire.
John Chard
Nov 16, 2014 · via TMDB
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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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
Mall Patron
John Cazale
Fredo Corleone (archive footage) (uncredited)
Louis Perez
Lookout (uncredited)
Don Was
Guitarist for Gourmet Club Party Band (uncredited)
Ken Adam
Production Design
William A. Fraker
Director of Photography
Julie Weiss
Costume Design
David R. Ellis
Stunt Coordinator
John Stead
Stunts
John Stoneham Sr.
Stunts
Mick O'Rourke
Stunts
Andrew Bergman
Director
Louis D'Esposito
First Assistant Director
Mike Fenton
Casting
Joseph S. DeBeasi
Music Editor
David Newman
Original Music Composer
Louis Bertini
Sound Editor
Andrew Bergman
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