The Freshman
He was on his way to the Dean's List, but he wound up on the hit list.
Overview
After a film student gets his belongings stolen, he meets a mobster bearing a startling resemblance to a certain cinematic godfather. Soon, he finds himself caught up in a caper involving endangered species and fine dining.
- Production
- TriStar Pictures
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Cast
Marlon Brando
Carmine Sabatini, aka Jimmy The Toucan
Matthew Broderick
Clark Kellogg
Bruno Kirby
Victor Ray
Penelope Ann Miller
Tina Sabatini
Frank Whaley
Steve Bushak
Jon Polito
Chuck Greenwald
Kenneth Welsh
Dwight Armstrong
Richard Gant
Lloyd Simpson
Maximilian Schell
Larry London
Paul Benedict
Arthur Fleeber
BD Wong
Edward
Leonardo Cimino
Lorenzo
Gianni Russo
Maitre D’ Gourmet Club
Pamela Payton-Wright
Liz Armstrong
Bert Parks
Bert Parks
James Millington
FBI Man
Geraldine Ronan
Student in Fleeber Classroom
Patricia Andrews
Mall Patron
Andrew Airlie
Mall Patron
Daniel DeSanto
Mall Patron
Crew
- Director
- Andrew Bergman
- Writers
- Andrew Bergman
- Producers
- Mike Lobell
- Cinematography
- William A. Fraker
- Composer
- David Newman
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User Reviews from TMDB
John Chard
November 16, 2014
Fresh or Ripe? The Freshman is a sort of comedy drama sprinkled with self aware barbs at film analysis. It’s a great opportunity to see Marlon Brando relaxed and fully playing up the self-parody angle. Plot finds Matthew Broderick as Clark Kellog, a film student arriving in New York who through unfortunate circumstances ends up working for a man who is not too dissimilar from Don Corleone! Writer and director Andrew Bergman spoofs the Mafia via screwball scenarios and satirical scripting, …
kevin2019
February 20, 2026
"The Freshman" is a very entertaining and satisfying film on every level when it could have been nothing more than a one joke, one dimensional novelity based upon the very appetising prospect not of a Komondo dragon banquet, but of watching Marlon Brando successfully reprising his Academy Award winning triumph as Don Vito Corleone purely for laughs this time around. Of course, this limited idea would have been absolutely exhausted in no time at all, so it is incredibly fortunate there is a solid…