School ties / Paramount Pictures ; screenplay by Dick Wolf and Darryl Ponicsan ; produced by Stanley R. Jaffe, Sherry Lansing ; directed by Robert Mandel.

Set in the 1950s: David Greene, a working-class Jewish quarterback from Scranton, Pennsylvania, is offered a football scholarship to a prestigious New England prep. school. It's David's ticket to an Ivy League education and a way out of his hometown, but there's one condition: the school's elders as...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Widescreen DVD collection.
Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Rovi K-12 education materials.
Corporate Author: Paramount Pictures Corporation
Other Authors: Mandel, Róbert, 1957- (Director)
Wolf, Dick (Screenwriter)
Ponicsan, Darryl (Screenwriter)
Fraser, Brendan, 1968- (Actor)
Damon, Matt (Actor)
Affleck, Ben, 1972- (Actor)
O'Donnell, Chris (Actor)
Locane, Amy, 1971- (Actor)
Language:English
French
Language of the Original:
English
Language and/or Writing System:
In English or French; closed-captioned.
Published: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount, [1999], ©1999.
Series:Widescreen DVD collection.
Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Rovi K-12 education materials.
Subjects:
Preparatory schools > New England > Drama.
Antisemitism > New England > Drama.
Drama.
Antisemitism.
Preparatory schools.
New England.
Feature films.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Genre:
Drama.
Feature films.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format: Video DVD
Description
Summary:
Set in the 1950s: David Greene, a working-class Jewish quarterback from Scranton, Pennsylvania, is offered a football scholarship to a prestigious New England prep. school. It's David's ticket to an Ivy League education and a way out of his 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 as his popularity grows. David strikes up a friendship with his roommate Chris Reece and a possible romance with Sally Wheeler, a student at a nearby girls' school. But, when David's secret is exposed by a jealous classmate he faces the full force of religious intolerance from the prejudiced White Anglo-Saxon Protestant institution.
Note:Title from sell sheet.
Originally produced as motion picture in 1992.
Widescreen.
Videorecording.
Call Number:AF9 D0002427 VideoDVD
Audience:
Rated PG-13.
ISBN:0792155521
9780792155522
Credits:Music, Maurice Jarre ; editors, Jerry Greenberg, Jacqueline Cambas ; production designer, Jeannine Claudia Oppewall ; director of photography, Freddie Francis ; associate producer, Michael Tadross ; executive producer, Danton Rissner.
System Details:DVD, Dolby Digital surround 5.1.
Cast:
Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Chris O'Donnell, Amy Locane.