School Ties

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School Ties
The movie cover for School Ties.
Directed by	Robert Mandel
Produced by	Stanley R. Jaffe Sherry Lansing
Written by	Darryl Ponicsan Dick Wolf
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(s)	September 18, 1992
Running time	106 min.
Language	English
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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.

”

1 Plot Description
2 Cast
3 Trivia
4 External links

[edit] Plot Description

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

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 quickly becomes friends with the other classmates, which can be seen in the scene where they sing "At Smokey Joe's Cafe." 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.

Spoilers end here.

The film is rated PG-13 for adult content, brief nudity, profanity and violence.

[edit] Cast

Actors Randall Batinkoff and Matt Damon in the film School Ties.

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

[edit] 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 (film)|Gone with the Wind (1939)]] - showing the now-famous poster art designed for the 1960s re-release of that film. [2]
This movie was also based on a true story which might've taken place at Taft Prep School.