School Ties
Just because you’re accepted doesn’t mean you belong.
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- Drama
Overview
When David Greene receives a football scholarship to a prestigious prep school in the 1950s, he feels pressure to hide the fact that he is Jewish from his classmates and teachers, fearing that they may be anti-Semitic. He quickly becomes the big man on campus thanks to his football skills, but when his Jewish background is discovered, his worst fears are realized and his friends turn on him with violent threats and public ridicule.
Keywords
- 1950s
- anti-semitism
- coming of age
- massachusetts
- preparatory school
- sports
- antisemitism
- scholarship
- judaism
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 18, 1992
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Paramount,Paramount Pictures
- Cast
- Brendan Fraser,Matt Damon,Chris O'Donnell,Randall Batinkoff,Andrew Lowery,Cole Hauser,Ben Affleck,Anthony Rapp,Amy Locane,Peter Donatand 37 more
- Director
- Robert Mandel
- Writer
- Dick Wolf,Darryl Ponicsan
- Producer
- Stanley R. Jaffe,Sherry Lansing
- Cinematography
- Freddie Francis
- Music
- Maurice Jarre
- Budget
- $18,000,000
- Revenue
- $14,700,000
- IMDb
- tt0105327