Wednesday, April 27, 2022

GOLDEN OLDIE 57: The Freshman


 

Well, here is a genuine Oldie.  It was released in 1990 and starred Marlon Brando, Mathew Broderick, Bruno Kirby – and a very large lizard.  Brando, in a way, satirizes his role as The Godfather, and generates a lot of chuckles thereby.  Broderick is fine as a mystified and misplaced yokel in the big city, Kirby is great as a would-be mafia sleaze ball – too bad he died so early – and Penelope Ann Miller is suitably scrumptious.  However, the movie belongs to Brando, and the reptile.  Just thinking about a Komodo dragon loose in a mall makes me smile.

The plot?  Well, nothing much and entirely preposterous, but what the heck.  It certainly beats watching the news on TV.  C+

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