The Freshman (1990)
Directed by Andrew Bergman
After a film student gets his belongings stolen, he meets a mobster bearing a startling resemblance to a certain cinematic godfather. Soon, he finds himself caught up in a caper involving endangered species and fine dining.
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Of course, any “rescue” operation headed by the likes of Ted Levine is not to be trusted right off the bat and indeed, it transpires that Owen and Claire have been lured under false pretenses and the dinosaurs are being shipped not to a safe place but to a destination I dare not reveal except to note that viewers who recall the great, if underrated, Marlon Brando comedy “The Freshman” may find themselves flashing back to one of its loopiest moments at a key point.
The plot, which puts Broderick's guileless young Clark through a series of comically interlocked disasters, recalls the Rube Goldberg-nightmare scenario of Martin Scorsese's After Hours.
It's like Griffin Dunne's ordeal in "After Hours," only considerably less nightmarish.