The Freshman [Blu-ray]

Director: Andrew Bergman Andrew Bergman

Overview

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 Victor 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.

Product Details

Release Date:	01/12/2021
UPC:	0683904635051
Original Release:	1990
Rating:	PG
Source:	Sony Pictures Home
Language:	English
Time:	1:42:00
Sales rank:	26,589

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Marlon Brando	Carmine Sabatini
Matthew Broderick	Clark Kellogg
Bruno Kirby	Victor Ray
Penelope Ann Miller	Tina Sabatini
Frank Whaley	Steve Bushak
Jon Polito	Larry London
Paul Benedict	Arthur Fleeber
Richard Gant	Lloyd Simpson
Kenneth Welsh	Dwight Armstrong
Pamela Payton-Wright	Liz Armstrong
B.D. Wong	Edward
Maximilian Schell	Larry London
Bert Parks	Himself
Tex Konig	Leo
Leo Cimino	Lorenzo,Lorenzo
Gianni Russo	Maitre D', Gourmet Club
Warren Davis	Fr. Frank
Vera Lockwood	Aunt Angelina
Jefferson Mappin	Hunter
Daniel Dion	Gas Attendant
Marnie Edwards	Mall Mother
Doug Silberstein	Mr. Glassman
J.H. Millington	FBI Man
Joe Ingoldsby	Waiter in Resturant
Fifi Donahue	Grand Central Station Booth Lady
Drake Arden	Student in Fleeber Classroom
David Stratton	Student in Fleeber Classroom
Geraldine Quinn	Student in Fleeber Classroom
Derek Mitchell	Student in Fleeber Classroom
Adrienne Howe	Mall Patron
Patricia Andrews	Mall Patron
Edward Roy	Mall Patron
Amanda Smith	Mall Patron
Andrew Airlie	Mall Patron
Daniel DeSanto	Mall Patron
Wendy Dickson	Mall Patron
Christina Trivett	Actor
John Cazale	Fredo Corleone
David Was	Keyboarder for Gourmet Club Party Band
Trivett Christina	Mall Patron
David Newman	Composer

Technical Credits

Andrew Bergman

Andrew Bergman	Director,Screenwriter
David Ellis	Stunts
Mike Lobell	Producer
Neil Tifunovich	Special Effects
Louis Bertini	Sound Effects
Lynda Gordon	Casting
Judy Taylor	Casting

Editorial Reviews

Marlon Brando's performance as Don Corleone in The Godfather is one of the most memorable in cinema history, and the actor's bravely pays homage to the part in writer-director Andrew Bergman's screwball comedy The Freshman. Brando runs away with the movie, and deservedly so: he delivers an astonishing, perfectly controlled comic performance. Bergman commandingly sends up Corleone and stages a number of other satiric moments, but despite being goofy and sloppy at times, the movie never becomes a spoof. The affable performances of Brando, Matthew Broderick, Paul Benedict and Bruno Kirby (who appeared in The Godfather Part II) sustain The Freshman's genial air. Gangster movies were a favorite revisionist target of such mid-1980s films as Prizzi's Honor and Married to the Mob; the closest match-up to Brando's work in the The Freshman, however, might be Robert De Niro's self-referential performance in 1999's Analyze This.

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