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Mood:
- EmotionalSincereThought ProvokingGloomy
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Plot:
- Coming of AgeAnti SemitismBoarding School LifeTeenage LifeInjusticeLifestyleSocietyYouth more...
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Genres:
- Drama
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century50s
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Place:
- MassachusettsUSAHigh SchoolBoarding School
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
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Flag:
- Profanity
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School Ties, 1992
English, Hebrew
USA
Profile of School Ties
The mood of School Ties is thought provoking, emotional, and sincere. The plot centers around boarding school life, anti semitism, and injustice. It is a drama movie. In approach, School Ties is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. The setting is Massachusetts. School Ties happens in the 1950s. Note that it includes profanity.
Summary of School Ties
When David Greene (Brendan Fraser) receives a football scholarship to a prestigious prep school in the 1950s, he feels pressure to hide the fact that he is Jewish from his classmates and teachers, fearing that they may be anti-Semitic. He quickly becomes the big man on campus thanks to his football skills, but when his Jewish background is discovered, his worst fears are realized and his friends (Matt Damon, Chris O'Donnell) turn on him with violent threats and public ridicule.
Details
| Language: | English, Hebrew |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 18 September 1992 |
| Runtime: | 106 min |
Cast and Crew
as David Greene
as Charlie Dillon
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