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MPAA Rating: PG Content Advisory: Questionable for Children, Profanity Movie Release: 1990 DVD Release: 07/14/1998 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV,Pan and Scan Audio Tracks: English, French, Spanish Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 42 mins Studio: Columbia TriStar Members Wishing: 0 Genres: Comedy, Romantic Comedy, Gangster Film

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, All Movie Guide

Matthew Broderick - Clark Kellogg
Marlon Brando - Carmone Sabatini
Bruno Kirby - Victor Ray
Penelope Ann Miller - Tina Sabatini
Frank Whaley - Steve Bushak
Paul Benedict - Arthur Fleeber

Andrew Bergman's gangster comedy The Freshman comes to DVD with a widescreen anamorphic transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1. English, Spanish, and French soundtracks are rendered in Dolby Digital Surround. Subtitles are accessible in all three of these languages as well. Supplemental materials include some theatrical trailers. This solid disc will please fans of the film and interest anybody who cares about Brando. His work in this film (in which he mocks his most famous screen role) is just as funny on the small screen as it was in theaters. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide