Freshman (film)
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| German title | Freshman |
| Original title | The freshman |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1990 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Andrew Bergman |
| script | Andrew Bergman |
| production | Mike Lobell |
| music | David Newman |
| camera | William A. Fraker |
| cut | Barry Malkin |
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Freshman (Original title: The Freshman ) is an American crime comedy from 1990 . Andrew Bergman directed and wrote the script. The main roles were played by Marlon Brando and Matthew Broderick .
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Clark Kellogg , a young man from Vermont , dreams of making it big as a director in the film business and travels to New York City to study film at a college. But he soon realizes that not everything is going as he would like in The Big Apple .
At the Grand Central Terminal , Victor , a supposedly self-employed taxi entrepreneur, stole his luggage and cash and his teacher, the “wannabe director” Prof. Fleeber, threatens to fail him right from the start if he doesn't get all of the textbooks within a very short time buy that this one wrote. These are supposedly required reading for future filmmakers.
A few days later he happened to meet Victor on the street and asked for his things back, which Victor had already sold. The eloquent Vic ' suggests that he take him to see his uncle Carmine Sabatini; he would give him back his money and maybe even offer him a job. So they drive together to the Italian quarter, where Uncle Carmine has set up his office in the back room of a café.
The old man, who bears a striking resemblance to 'Don Corleone' from " The Godfather " , but does not want to be asked about it, welcomes Clark and offers him a lucrative job. He just had to pick up a little something from the post office and bring it to a certain Larry London . This sounds simple, but it turns out that the "little thing" is actually a full-grown Komodo dragon . After a few difficulties, Clark finally succeeds in bringing the giant lizard to the eccentric Larry London , whose house is teeming with other endangered species.
Over time, Clark gets to know Mr. Sabatini better and better and a kind of father-son relationship develops. But there are also some inconsistencies: What does Sabatini want with the monitor lizard, why are armed guards running around his property, why everyone gets nervous when the name Carmine Sabatini is mentioned, and why is the real Mona Lisa hanging in the living room of the supposedly harmless olive oil importer ?
The two federal agents Greenwald and Simpson provide Clark with the answers to these questions . According to them, Carmine Sabatini is a gang boss nicknamed 'Jimmy the Toucan' and the mysterious Larry London is actually the Austrian master chef Hans-Kurt Schlegel . Together they run an illegal gourmet club for the super-rich, who are served exotic and endangered animals at an annual big dinner for exorbitant prices, and this time the monitor lizard is to be the main course.
He is now supposed to help the agents as an informant to expose the criminal catering organization. Clark is torn, especially as it turns out the two agents are rogue and plan to kill him once they get the millions in entry fees for this year's gourmet club. Besides, old Sabatini was always kind to him.
On the evening of the big gourmet meeting , there was a confrontation and Carmine Sabatini was shot dead during a scuffle . Agents Greenwald and Simpson flee with the loot, but are caught and arrested by the FBI , which was informed by Clark . Carmine Sabatini has only faked his death and withdraws from the world of organized crime with a real bang, because the entire gourmet club is one big hoax. The super-rich guests are actually served ordinary sea bass or chicken , and the endangered animals are housed in the New York Zoo's new ' Carmine Sabatini Endangered Species Wing ' , which is financed by the entrance fees .
Reviews
- Lexicon of international film : "A tongue-in-cheek game with appearance and reality, the logical weaknesses of which are made up for by the joy of playing of the actors."
- Cinema : “The hitherto unknown Andrew Bergman got Marlon Brando to take on a leading role again after ten years, for a ridiculously small fee. The heavyweight is gorgeous, especially in the scene where he gracefully glides across the ice on ice skates. "
- TV Movie 05/09: “Recommended. A parody that is very entertaining. "
Awards & nominations
- Penelope Ann Miller won the Chicago Film Critics Association Award in 1991 .
- The film was nominated for the 1991 Artios Award from the Casting Society of America .
- The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.
DVD release
- Freshman / March 5, 2002 / Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Others
- Marlon Brando's character Carmine Sabatini is exactly like the godfather Don Vito Corleone, so that Paramount Pictures , who own the rights to The Godfather , called the film plagiarism .
- The film was shot in New York City , in Toronto and Mississauga ( Ontario turned) and played in the cinemas of the United States about 21.46 million US dollars one.
Web links
- Freshman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Freshman at rotten tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Freshman in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed August 5, 2008
- ↑ Cinema , accessed August 5, 2008.
- ^ Filming locations for The Freshman , accessed August 5, 2008.
- ^ Box office / business for The Freshman , accessed August 5, 2008.