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...dark recesses of an Italian "social club" in lower Manhattan, Carmine Sabatini (Marlon Brando), an elderly mafioso, peers across a small table at Clark Kellogg (Matthew Broderick), a rosy-faced NYU film student fresh from Vermont. Sabatini orders Kellogg some Italian coffee and proceeds to pour four or five heaping spoonfuls of sugar into the small demitasse. The taste of the stuff is enough to make Kellogg grimace...
...they need to be familiar with the subject being ridiculed; in the case of The Freshman this is a doubled-edged sword. No one who has seen The Godfather will, without great difficulty, be able to successfully separate Brando's characterization of Don Corleone from his characterization of Carmine Sabatini. In the viewer's mind Brando's various incarnations of the mob boss blur, and along with the confusion goes The Freshman's hopes for a separate successful identity...
...Film School, he arrives at Grand Central Station and is immediately conned out of all his money and possessions by Victor Ray (Bruno Kirby). Kellogg meets up with Ray again and in order to make up for his past wrongs, offers him a job working for his uncle, Carmine Sabatini, a prominent importer with dubious business dealings. Sabatini sets Kellogg up delivering illegally imported endangedred species to mafioso gourmet chef Larry London (Maximilain Schell). Kellogg soon finds himself drawn into the Sabatini family deeper and faster than he wishes, engaged to Sabatini's daughter Tina (Penelope Ann Miller) and under...
...resemblance, as everyone in The Freshman keeps remarking, is striking. In certain lights, especially dim ones, Carmine Sabatini looks uncannily like Don Vito Corleone, the Godfather of blessed movie memory...
Melissa R. Hart '91 Night Editors: Jonathan S. Cohn '91 Ross G. Forman '90 Matthew M. Hoffman '91 Lan N. Nguyen '93 Rebecca L. Walkowitz '92 Feature Editor: Joseph R. Palmore '91 Sports Editor: Michael R. Grunwald '92 Photo Editors: William H. Bachman '92 Bernardo L. Sabatini '91 Business Editor: Raymond B. Nomizu '92 Copy Editor: Jon E. Morgan...