School Ties
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| Directed by | Robert Mandel |
| Written by | Darryl Ponicsan Dick Wolf |
| Produced by | Stanley R. Jaffe Sherry Lansing |
| Starring | Brendan Fraser Matt Damon Chris O'Donnell Randall Batinkoff Andrew Lowery Cole Hauser Anthony Rapp Ben Affleck |
| Music by | Maurice Jarre |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date | September 18 1992 |
Running time | 106 min. |
| Language | English |
School Ties was a 1992 film directed by Robert Mandel that launched the acting careers of Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and Chris O'Donnell. Cole Hauser, Randall Batinkoff and Anthony Rapp also appear in the film.
Brendan Fraser plays the lead role as David Greene, a Jewish high-school student who transfers from a Pennsylvania public school to a New England prep school in his senior year after he is awarded an athletic scholarship.
The tagline used to promote the film was:
Just Because You're Accepted
Doesn't Mean You Belong.
Plot Description
David Greene (Fraser) is a working-class teenager in Pennsylvania during the 1950s, who is given an unusual football scholarship to an exclusive Massachusetts, Christian, prep school for his senior year, becoming the school's starting quarterback. He is also a gifted student, and finds a path to Harvard University now open to him, from which a boy of his background would normally be barred.
David becomes the team hero and wins the attentions of beautiful debutante Sally Wheeler (Amy Locane). For some time, he enjoys the status of the 'quarterback hero', accepted by his elite peers. But in the afterglow of a victory over the school's chief rival, the ties of his newfound friendships are broken when jealous classmate Charlie Dillon (Damon) learns accidentally and then maliciously reveals the secret that David has tried to conceal - that David is Jewish.
David soon finds himself fighting a battle alone after Sally and his classmates turn against him, and it all comes to a head when David is falsely accused of cheating during a history exam. Due to the school's honor code, the history class themselves must determine justice.
The film is rated PG-13 for adult content, brief nudity, profanity and violence.
Cast
- Brendan Fraser - David Greene
- Matt Damon - Charlie Dillon
- Chris O'Donnell - Chris Reece
- Randall Batinkoff - Rip Van Kelt
- Andrew Lowery - 'Mack' McGivern
- Cole Hauser - Jack Connors
- Ben Affleck - Chesty Smith
- Anthony Rapp - Richard "McGoo" Collins
- Amy Locane - Sally Wheeler
Trivia
- The scene shot at Skip's Blue Moon Diner was filmed in downtown Gardner, Massachusetts.
- Most of the movie was filmed on location at Middlesex School, in Concord, Massachusetts. In addition, Worcester Academy and St. Mark's School (both area prep schools) were also involved in the filming.
- The movie is based on personal experiences of the writer, Dick Wolf. [1]
- At the dance in the gym, on the wall is poster for Gone with the Wind (1939) - showing the now-famous poster art designed for the 1960s re-release of that film. [2]
External links
- School Ties at IMDb
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