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It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Many of the actors' parts in this film had been a sort of a poking fun their most well-known screen roles or celebrity personas. Marlon Brando plays a comedic version of Don Vito Corleone, the character that he parodizes with delight throughout the film. But there is a certain finesse and tenderness in his portrayal of Carmine Sabatini. He made the mobster employer more amiable and endearing than any other mobster character featured in the Godfather films, the kind that doesn't resort to uttering threats regarding offers that one can't possibly refuse. He relies instead on his charm in being an emphatic persuader (e.g. marrying off his daughter) in recruiting the film school freshman or convincing him to stay in his employ. It's his most accessible comedic film performance, if not his entire career. Broderick play Clark Kellogg, a clueless kid that has none of the wiles and a stark contrast to the role that made him the household name, the suave titular character in the hilarious Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Clark who arrives in NYC to enter college but not before he is befriended and smooth-talked by Victor Ray played by Bruno Kirby who will then lead the desperate student Clark to his boss/uncle Carmine. The henchman that Kirby plays is similarity to Clemenza, the one that introduces the young Vito Corleone to the mob life in the classic film The Godfather Part Two, the film which is coincidentally being studied in Clark's film school class, the one that professor Arthur Fleeber conducts. Paul Benedict plays the eccentric and narcissistic film professor who is a penchant for title dropping films every now and then to rub off his expertise in film knowledge that on the surface seems quite ill-suited, but upon closer scrutiny it's incredibly spot-on. Some people might remember him as that Mad Painter guy that always gets into different sorts of trouble because his zealous way of teaching number recognition in those Sesame Street comedic vignettes. Bert Parks, well-known as being the former Miss America pageant host, who also got his share of the fun as well, dedicating the "There She Is" song to a hapless komodo dragon. His musical performances near the end of the film performing classic hits such as "Tequila" and "Mona Lisa" with a live band in a spectacular stage set designed by the legendary Ken Adams is a beholding spectacle. There's also Maximilian Schell, celebrated for his Oscar-winning performance in Judgment at Nuremberg, who hams through his role as Larry London, the chef who's responsible for preparing the dishes for the exclusive nomadic club Carmine is hosting. Also notable are the enjoyable performances of the young actors that will soon make their mark in the film world. Penelope Ann Miller's Tina is someone who embraces her father Carmine's notoriety as a mobster which is quite a hoot, Frank Whaley's charming take as the late-'80s-early-90's dapper roommate/classmate who gets dragged into Clark's mob errands, and B.D. Wong's take as London's Zen-ish associate gives the film it's most significant quote, "Well, without humor, what do we have?" I had to applaud how Andrew Bergman turned a somewhat grim premise into a charming one where he created an insightful script where all the film's characters and elements are seamlessly juxtaposed, kind of resembles the Kandinsky painting seen as a poster on Clark's dorm room. Not a single scene or character is wasted, each one contributes to help the audience understand what the plot is about. And for a film that was released also in the same year as The Godfather Part Three, which can be considered a sad but satisfying conclusion to the Corleone family saga, and Good Fellas, the film that deconstructed the gangster genre, The Freshman kind of gives us an affectionate if not sentimental glimpse of the people living in the fringes of the society that we should be always wary of. My rating: A-minus.

A young boy (Matthew Broderick) travels from his home in Vermont to attend a film school in New York. When he arrives, he is cautious, especially when he is approached by a man offering him a ride, but he ends up being convinced by him, and is duly ripped off. As such he is stuck in New York with no clothes and no money to buy his required texts, and no way of getting any more as his step father is not really all that concerned about him.Then he sees the guy who ripped him off walking down and road, and he chases him and catches up with him. The guy offers him a job with his uncle who turns out to be a godfather figure (Marlon Brando). Brando immediately take Broderick on board as his own son, but Broderick becomes more suspicious and cautious when he learns that he has helped Brando import an endangered Komodo Dragon into New York. This concern escalates when he is confronted by two FBI agents who want Brando for running meals in which endangered animals are served as the main course.There are a lot of twists in this movie though, and there is an elaborate plan running throughout. At times it seems as if this is unrealistic, but the movie did manage to suspend my disbelief, and brought me into the interactions between Brando and Broderick, which is the keystone of this film. It is not a crime thriller or an action movie, but rather a movie that explores the nature of fatherhood, and I think this does it well.Broderick's stepfather does not treat him as a son, and thus Broderick has no respect for him. After Broderick gets out of the situation, his stepfather offers him a hand of friendship to which Broderick refuses. Instead he takes Brando's hand for Brando is his true father figure and Broderick looked up to him as such. This created the main conflict in the movie: it was not between Broderick and the FBI or against Brando, but rather within himself. Broderick is torn between honouring his new found father, or betraying him and turning him into the FBI.The Freshman is a very well made movie. It has some good themes, ones that arise form within the movie rather than the movie being tied around them. It acknowledges one of the desires in our hearts to find a true father, a father that will not turn our back on us, and will be willing to provide everything, including a wife.To me I have found that father, and that father is God, for God is our Father in heaven. He is a father that will never betray us of hit us, and is willing to discipline us when we do wrong. He loves us so much that he is willing to sacrifice himself to forgive us for turning away from us. God is not an earthly father, he is a heavenly and is perfect in everyway, and he promises that he will always provide for us and will always be there for us. He understands everything we go through and more, and to see this we need to look at the life of Jesus, for Jesus is God.

Mstthew Broderick is "The Freshman" in this very clever film written and directed by Andrew Berman. The film also stars Marlon Brando, Penelope Ann Miller, Paul Benedict, and Jon Polito.Broderick plays Clark Kellogg, who leaves his midwest home to attend NYU film school. He's just off the plane when he's approached by a gypsy cab driver who winds up stealing his stuff. The next thing he knows, Clark has taken a job with a mobster, Sabatini (Marlon Brando) as the cab driver's way of making it up to him that he can't pay him back the money he stole. His job is to go to the airport and pick up a package, which turns out to be a Komodo dragon. After that, he becomes engaged to Sabatini's daughter (Miller) who has shown him the real Mona Lisa stolen by her father. He's visited by the FBI. Then someone shows him his new passport - he is to become the moustached Rodolfo Lasparri of Palermo.Some of this film is laugh out loud funny, with terrific dialogue, situations, and performances. Brando, in a reprise of Vito Corleone in "The Godfather" is a scream, and in Clark's film class, we see scenes from "The Godfather" throughout the film. Clark even gets the "baci di tutti baci" from Sabatini, as Freddo got it from his brother Michael. The best scene is Clark and his friend trying to get the dragon from the airport to the designated location.Very, very funny movie. Broderick is terrific as the naive and confused Kellogg. Everyone is excellent. Highly recommended.

Anyone who has seen Brando for years understands this. He finds the space in each role to try something totally unlike he has ever done. When you think about it, that is not easy for any actor. In fact, let's face it. Many actors make a career... making a career. They find one hook and take it to the bank for the rest of their lives. Now no actor can completely move outside of himself or herself in every role. But what Brando has done in this movie defies imagination. He takes a role that assumes he must portray a direct caricature of his role in the Godfather and then does not merely caricature that role; he adds depth and nuance beyond what even that role allows for. This is spectacular acting. The end, in any comedy, tends to be predictable, of course, but the middle of this movie especially, as one reviewer notes here, the dormitory scene with Matthew Broderick, and an earlier scene where Brando sips espresso with Broderick and discusses his daughter, are the height of American acting. You may think you can't see them at times when he squints-but watch Brando's eyes in that scene.