School Ties

School Ties is a 1992 film directed by Robert Mandel that launched the acting careers of Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Chris O'Donnell and 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. David... more

School Ties is a 1992 film directed by Robert Mandel that launched the acting careers of Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Chris O'Donnell and 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. David Greene (Fraser) is a working-class Jewish teenager from Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1955, who is given an unusual football scholarship to become the school's starting quarterback at an exclusive Massachusetts Protestant prep school, St. Matthew's, or St. Matt's. In this film about coming of age and prejudice, Greene's Jewish heritage is first insulted outside a hometown hangout and he challenges the bigoted biker who insulted him, leading to a fight where David beats up the biker. It is after this that his father (Ed Lauter) tells him that he ... less