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- 1990
- PG
- TriStar Pictures
- 1 h 42 m
- 1990
- PG
- TriStar Pictures
- 1 h 42 m
Summary An N.Y.C. film school student (Matthew Broderick) accepts a job with a local mobster who resembles a famous cinema godfather and who takes the young man under his wing, after demanding total loyalty.
Directed By: Andrew Bergman
Written By: Andrew Bergman
- 1990
- PG
- TriStar Pictures
- 1 h 42 m
- 1990
- PG
- TriStar Pictures
- 1 h 42 m
The Freshman
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7.4
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Summary An N.Y.C. film school student (Matthew Broderick) accepts a job with a local mobster who resembles a famous cinema godfather and who takes the young man under his wing, after demanding total loyalty.
Directed By: Andrew Bergman
Written By: Andrew Bergman
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
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93% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
78
93% Positive
25 Reviews
25 Reviews
7% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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The Freshman is the smartest and most slyly amusing American farce in years.
The visual style of The Freshman isn't always up to its verbal wit, but then the writing sets an exceptional standard.
There have been a lot of movies where stars have repeated the triumphs of their parts - but has any star ever done it more triumphantly than Marlon Brando does in "The Freshman"? He is doing a reprise here of his most popular character, Don Vito Corleone of "The Godfather," and he does it with such wit, discipline and seriousness that it's not a ripoff and it's not a cheap shot, it's a brilliant comic masterstroke.
The casting, needless to say, is perfect, and Bergman keeps the various escalating intrigues clipping along at a brisk pace.
It's no masterpiece. In fact, it's not even all that good. But it has that great character in it -- Falstaff, or in this case, a thinly veiled Vito Corleone -- so it's something to see. [27 July 1990, p.E1]
With Brando around, The Freshman has a snappy madness that’s hard to resist.
No actor has ever been more contemptuous of his profession -- or the movie business as a whole -- than Brando; to him, acting is nothing, and his performance here shows his self-loathing, his desire to trash himself and his accomplishments. This isn't self-parody, it's self-desecration.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 User Ratings
7.4
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 User Ratings
7.4
77% Positive
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Awards
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Casting Society of America, USA
• 1 Nomination
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards
• 1 Nomination
