Stars: Marlon Brando, Matthew Broderick, Bruno Kirby, Penelope Ann Miller, Frank Whaley, B.D. Wong, Bert Parks

Director: Andrew Bergman

Summary: A first year university student is conned out of his possessions just minutes after his arrival. By chance he sees the thief again and demands his belongings, only to find himself accepting work from a local businessman who happens to look remarkably like The Godfather.

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.

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Andrew Bergman's tongue-in-cheek comedy The Freshmankeeps the spoofing low key, underplaying the outrageous situations even as he piles them higher. Young Clark Kellog (Matthew Broderick) had no idea film school would drop him into the hands of a real-life Godfather, but after a street punk robs him during his first day in New York City, that's just where the road leads. Marlon Brando lets everyone know he's in on the joke with his hammy, good-humoured performance as the bulldog-jowled Mafioso Carmine Sabatini, the man Clark's prissy, self-important professor swears was the real-life inspiration for Don Corleone. Carmine has a modest proposal for the naive kid from Vermont involving Carmine's gorgeous daughter Tina (Penelope Ann Miller) and the illegal importing of an endangered lizard. And if the sight of a six-foot-long lizard scattering shoppers as it runs wild through a New York City mall doesn't do it for you, there's always Bert Parks' rousing rendition of Bob Dylan's "Maggie's Farm".--Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

Aspect Ratio:	1.85 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Trailer - 1. Original Theatrical
Subtitles:	Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
Year:	1990
Release Date:	May 20, 2002
Runtime:	98 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	C D R 11575
Keywords:	Comedy, General, Wide, Screen, Freshman
Genre:	Comedy