School Ties Summary
MPAA Rating: PG13
Director: Robert Mandel
Genres: Drama
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An assemblage of young Hollywood actors poised for stardom marked this tale of anti-Semitism at a 1950s prep school. Brendan_Fraser stars as David Greene, a working-class Jewish quarterback from Scranton, Pennsylvania, who is offered a senior year scholarship to a prestigious New England academy. It's David's ticket to an Ivy League education and a way out of his Rust Belt hometown, but there's one condition: the school's elders ask him to be discreet about his religion. At first willing to do so, David struggles with his silence about his faith as his popularity grows. David strikes up a friendship with his roommate Chris Reece (Chris O'Donnell) and a possible romance with Sally Wheeler (Amy_Locane), a student at a nearby girls' school. When jealous classmate Charlie Dillon (Matt_Damon) learns David's secret at an alumni party, he exposes the school's new gridiron hero, and David faces the full force of religious intolerance from the prejudiced WASP institution. Also featuring early performances from Ben_Affleck, Anthony_Rapp, and Cole_Hauser, School Ties was loosely based on the real-life experiences of producer Dick_Wolf, creator of TV's popular series Law & Order. Karl Williams, Rovi
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