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School Ties
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.
1992 · Directed by Robert Mandel · 106 min · Drama · 8 frames
Tagline
Just because you’re accepted doesn’t mean you belong.
Crew
- Screenplay: Darryl Ponicsan, Dick Wolf
- Cinematography: Freddie Francis
- Edited by: Jacqueline Cambas, Gerald B. Greenberg
- Music: Maurice Jarre
- Production design: Jeannine Oppewall
- Produced by: Sherry Lansing, Stanley R. Jaffe
Cast
- Brendan Fraser as David Greene
- Matt Damon as Charlie Dillon
- Chris O'Donnell as Chris Reece
- Randall Batinkoff as Rip Van Kelt
- Andrew Lowery as McGivern
- Cole Hauser as Jack Connors
- Ben Affleck as Chesty Smith
- Anthony Rapp as McGoo
- Amy Locane as Sally Wheeler
- Peter Donat as Headmaster Bartram
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Paramount Pictures
- Budget: $18,000,000
- Box office: $14,700,000
- Themes: scholarship, sports, massachusetts, coming of age, judaism, antisemitism, preparatory school, 1950s
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