The stolid social prejudice drama of the 1950s gets an ineffective updating in SCHOOL TIES, the story of an ultra-WASP boys' prep school that brings a Jewish student in as a scholarship ringer to quarterback their football team.
David Greene (Brendan Fraser) is a local football star from blue-collar Scranton who's plucked from almost-certain obscurity at the start of his senior year of high school to quarterback the team at exclusive St. Matthew's Prep, an Ivy League "feed school." Familiar with anti-Semitic prejudice in
his home town, Greene elects to keep his religion secret at the school, even though it means biting his tongue against ethnic jokes and shirkin...
Released:
1992
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
107 mins