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The Freshman
1990
THE FRESHMAN is a wry and winsome film about Clark, a freshman film student (Matthew Broderick) in New York City, who is made an offer he can't refuse by a Mafia don (Marlon Brando) who is the spitting image of Don Corleone. As Clark weighs the romance against the danger of his association, he finds himself rapidly more .. Read more
| Starring | Marlon Brando, Matthew Broderick, Bruno Kirby, Penelope Ann Miller |
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| Director | Andrew Bergman |
| Genres | Comedy |
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The Freshman
THE FRESHMAN is a wry and winsome film about Clark, a freshman film student (Matthew Broderick) in New York City, who is made an offer he can't refuse by a Mafia don (Marlon Brando) who is the spitting image of Don Corleone. As Clark weighs the romance against the danger of his association, he finds himself rapidly more involved. Brando, the Godfather himself, brilliantly (almost) reprises his famous role in this oddly affecting comedy.
| Starring | Marlon Brando, Matthew Broderick, Bruno Kirby, Penelope Ann Miller, Frank Whaley, B.D. Wong, Bert Parks |
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| Director | Andrew Bergman |
| Studio | SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 38 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 20 May 2002 Production year: 1990 |
| Format | DVD |
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Here's a chance to see a mellow Marlon Brando in his greatest comedy performance — a case of self-parody in which he plays a godfather figure making film student Matthew Broderick an offer he can't refuse: a job as a delivery boy, carting around exotic animals including a giant lizard. Writer/director Andrew Bergman's glorious spoof of Mafia ways spends too long satirising film-study pretension, but spins its screwball antics along at such a pace you can forgive it almost anything.
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"... What THE FRESHMAN demonstrates is that Brando can parody himself better than any of his imitators -- and still appear as regal as ever..."
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10 out of 10 people found this review helpful
Brando deserves praise
Ok so it's not Brando's most brilliant movie, but it does not deserve the slating that it received from some so called critics. In this light comedy Broderick discovers that a local business man looks exactly like the Godfather from the movies. He becomes entrapped in his dodgey dealings and this movie follow's Broderick's plight as he is faced with the dillema of whether to turn the 'Godfather' in to the feds or stay loyal to him. I watched nervously as I had read some criticism about this movie, mainly regarding Brando's choice to reprise his role as Godfather in this comedy - as if it were somehow beneath him. I DISAGREE totally - I loved watching Brando as the Godfather again. He gave a fantastic performance and made me feel quite nostalgic. Even if the movie it's self lacked some credibility (what comedy doesn't?) you can't fault Brando's performance. For this reason I've given the movie 4 stars. If you have any respect for Marlon Brando as an actor then I really think it's worth you watching this.
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
The Freshman
Great easy watching film - nice one for a Sunday afternoon !
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