School Ties

School Ties is a 1992 American high school sports drama movie directed by Robert Mandel and starring Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Chris O'Donnell, Randall Batinkoff, Andrew Lowery, Cole Hauser, Ben Affleck, and Anthony Rapp. The movie was distributed by Paramount Pictures.

Plot
David Greene (Brendan Fraser), is a working class Jewish high school student from Scranton, Pennsylvania, who is awarded an athletic scholarship to an elite preparatory school in Massachusetts during his senior year in 1955. His fellow students come from rich families, and he learns that most of them are antisemites, which forces him to hide his Jewish background.

Cast
 Brendan Fraser as David Greene
 Matt Damon as Charlie Dillon
 Chris O'Donnell as Chris Reece
 Randall Batinkoff as Rip Van Kelt, head prefect
 Andrew Lowery as "Mack" McGivern
 Cole Hauser as Jack Connors
 Ben Affleck as Chesty Smith
 Anthony Rapp as Richard "McGoo" Collins
 Amy Locane as Sally Wheeler
 Peter Donat as Headmaster Dr. Bartram
 Željko Ivanek as Mr. Cleary, French language teacher
 Kevin Tighe as Coach McDevitt, football coach
 Michael Higgins as Mr. Gierasch, history teacher
 Ed Lauter as Alan Greene, David's father
 Peter McRobbie as Chaplain

Reception
The movie received generally mixed reviews from movie critics and the audience. The movie has a 60% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 40 reviews.

The movie did badly at the box office, because it made $14.7 million at the box office, while its budget was estimated at $18 million.

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Category:1992 drama movies
Category:1990s English-language movies 
Category:1990s American drama movies
Category:1990s high school movies
Category:American high school movies
Category:Movies about antisemitism
Category:Movies about bullying
Category:Movies set in boarding schools
Category:Movies set in Massachusetts
Category:Movies set in Pennsylvania
Category:Movies set in the 1950s
Category:Suicide in movies
Category:Paramount Pictures movies
Category:Movies composed by Maurice Jarre