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The Freshman

( Catalog Number 79126 )
(1.85:1) (2 Sides) (CLV) (CC) (NTSC)

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The Freshman
1990 - 102 min. - Color
Genre: Comedy
Rated PG
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
A wry and winsome film about a freshman film student in New York City who is made an offer he can't refuse by a Mafia don who is the spitting image of Don Corleone. As he weighs the romance against the danger of his association, he finds himself rapidly more involved. The Godfather himself, Marlon Brando, brilliantly reprises his famous role in this oddly affecting comedy.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
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. --- Mark Deming

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. --- Brendon Hanley

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Cast for The Freshman

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

Crew for The Freshman

Michael Lobell - Producer
Mike Lobell - Producer
William A. Fraker - Cinematographer
David Newman - Composer (Music Score)
Barry Malkin - Editor
Ken Adam - Production Designer
Daniel Davis - Production Designer
Alicia Keywan - Art Director
Harlan Goodman - Musical Direction/Supervision
Barry Adamson - Songwriter
Blixa Bargeld - Songwriter
Andrew Bergman - Songwriter / Screenwriter / Director
Hoagy Carmichael - Songwriter
Nick Cave - Songwriter
Carmine Coppola - Songwriter
Bob Dylan - Songwriter
Ray Evans - Songwriter
Melvin Glover - Songwriter
Mick Harvey - Songwriter
Ice Cube - Songwriter
Jay Livingston - Songwriter
Frank Loesser - Songwriter
Johnny Mercer - Songwriter
Hugo Race - Songwriter
Chuck Rio - Songwriter
Harry Warren - Songwriter
Bernie Wayne - Songwriter
Gordon Sim - Set Designer
Aleida MacDonald - Costume Designer
Julie Weiss - Costume Designer
Patricia Green - Makeup
Neil Tifunovich - Special Effects
Rocco Musacchia - Consultant/advisor
Harald Ortenburger - Camera Operator
David R. Ellis - Stunts
Mike Fenton - Casting
Lynda Gordon - Casting
Judy Taylor - Casting

Feature Details

Title: The Freshman
Feature Release Date: 1990
Genre: Comedy
Rating: PG
Color: Color
Runtime: 102 Minutes
Picture: Letterboxed
Ratio: 1.85:1
Playback Format: CLV

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LD Release Date: 27 Apr 1994
Catalog Number: 79126
UPC: 043396791268
ISBN: 0800136659
Manufacturer: DADC USA
Publisher: Columbia Tri-Star Video

Diameter: 12"
Sides: 2
Cover: Jacket
Closed Caption: English
Spoken Language: English
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: 79126
Shipping Weight: 1 lbs
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Marlon Brando and Matthew Broderick in...

The Freshman

( Catalog Number 79126 )
(1.85:1) (2 Sides) (CLV) (CC) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc

The Freshman
1990 - 102 min. - Color
Genre: Comedy
Rated PG
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
A wry and winsome film about a freshman film student in New York City who is made an offer he can't refuse by a Mafia don who is the spitting image of Don Corleone. As he weighs the romance against the danger of his association, he finds himself rapidly more involved. The Godfather himself, Marlon Brando, brilliantly reprises his famous role in this oddly affecting comedy.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
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. --- Mark Deming

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. --- Brendon Hanley

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Cast for The Freshman

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

Crew for The Freshman

Michael Lobell - Producer
Mike Lobell - Producer
William A. Fraker - Cinematographer
David Newman - Composer (Music Score)
Barry Malkin - Editor
Ken Adam - Production Designer
Daniel Davis - Production Designer
Alicia Keywan - Art Director
Harlan Goodman - Musical Direction/Supervision
Barry Adamson - Songwriter
Blixa Bargeld - Songwriter
Andrew Bergman - Songwriter / Screenwriter / Director
Hoagy Carmichael - Songwriter
Nick Cave - Songwriter
Carmine Coppola - Songwriter
Bob Dylan - Songwriter
Ray Evans - Songwriter
Melvin Glover - Songwriter
Mick Harvey - Songwriter
Ice Cube - Songwriter
Jay Livingston - Songwriter
Frank Loesser - Songwriter
Johnny Mercer - Songwriter
Hugo Race - Songwriter
Chuck Rio - Songwriter
Harry Warren - Songwriter
Bernie Wayne - Songwriter
Gordon Sim - Set Designer
Aleida MacDonald - Costume Designer
Julie Weiss - Costume Designer
Patricia Green - Makeup
Neil Tifunovich - Special Effects
Rocco Musacchia - Consultant/advisor
Harald Ortenburger - Camera Operator
David R. Ellis - Stunts
Mike Fenton - Casting
Lynda Gordon - Casting
Judy Taylor - Casting

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