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School Ties
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6.5When 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.
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
Themes
- scholarship
- sports
- massachusetts
- coming of age
- judaism
- antisemitism
- preparatory school
- 1950s
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Ratings
IMDb
6.9/10
28,621 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
60%
Metacritic
65/100
- Year
- 1992
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- 3 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Robert Mandel
- Screenplay by
- Dick Wolf Darryl Ponicsan
- Story by
- Dick Wolf
- Produced by
- Stanley R. Jaffe Sherry Lansing Michael Tadross
- Starring
- Brendan Fraser
- Cinematography
- Freddie Francis
- Edited by
- Jerry Greenberg Jacqueline Cambas
- Music by
- Maurice Jarre
- Production company
- Jaffe/Lansing Production
- Distributed by
- Paramount Pictures
- Release date
- September 18, 1992 ( 1992-09-18 )
- Running time
- 107 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $18 million
- Box office
- $14.7 million
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 106
- FilmAffinity ID
- 702249
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- publication date
- 1993-03-11
- title
- School Ties
- review score
- 65/100
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School Ties is a 1992 American drama film directed by Robert Mandel and starring Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Chris O'Donnell, Randall Batinkoff, Andrew Lowery, Cole Hauser, Ben Affleck, and Anthony Rapp. Fraser plays the lead role as David Greene, a Jewish high school student who is awarded an athletic scholarship to an elite preparatory school in his senior year.
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