School ties
By: Paramount Pictures ; screenplay by Dick Wolf and Darryl Ponicsan ; produced by Stanley R. Jaffe, Sherry Lansing ; directed by Robert Mandel
Contributors: Fraser, Brendan, 1968- actor; Damon, Matt, actor; Affleck, Ben, 1972- actor; O'Donnell, Chris, actor; Locane, Amy, 1971- actor; Paramount Pictures Corporation; Warner Home Video (Firm)
Series: Widescreen DVD collection; Widescreen DVD collection
Published: 2006
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 107
Subjects: Drama; Antisemitism; Preparatory schools
Other titles: School ties (Motion picture). French.
Description: 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.
Notes: Special features: widescreen presentation, enhanced for 16x9 ; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround ; interactive menus

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1992.

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.

Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Chris O'Donnell, Amy Locane.

MPAA rating: PG-13.

DVD, Dolby surround.

In English or French; closed-captioned.