School Ties

School Ties is a 1992 American drama film directed by Robert Mandel and starring Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Chris O'Donnell, Randall Batinkoff, Andrew Lowery, Cole Hauser, Ben Affleck, and Anthony Rapp. Fraser plays the lead role as David Greene, a Jewish high school student who is awarded an athletic scholarship to an elite preparatory school in his senior year. Plot In September of 1955, working-class Jewish 17-year-old David Greene, from Scranton, Pennsylvania, receives a football scholarship to St. Matthew's Academy, an exclusive Massachusetts prep school, for his senior year because of his excellent grades and exceptional ability to play football. However, before arriving at school, David gets into an alleyway fight with a nearby motorcycle gang, which leaves him with a bruised forehead. Upon arrival, he meets his teammates Rip Van Kelt, Charlie Dillon, Jack Connors, McGivern, and his roommate Chris Reese, the most well-known and popular students who are from well-to-do families, and learns of the school's cherished honor code system. After learning that his newfound friends, as well as the majority of staff and students at this preparatory school, have wide spread, negative and stereotypical views about Jews, he chooses to not reveal his religion to them. David quickly becomes the football team's hero and attracts beautiful débutante Sally Wheeler, who Dillon "claims" is his girlfriend. After a victory over the school's chief rival St. Luke's, an intoxicated teacher accidentally reveals David's Judaism to Charlie. Out of jealousy, Dillon tells the rest of the football team about this in the shower room and David challenges him to a fight which results in Dillon getting a bloody nose. Soon, David's Judaism becomes the centre of attention, causing Sally and most of the other students to turn against David. David's classmates, led by Richard "McGoo" Collins and his bodyguard-like roommate Chesty Smith, constantly harass him, with only Reese and another unnamed student remaining loyal. The final straw comes when he finds a sign above his bed bearing a Nazi flag and the words "Go home Jew." Finally having enough, he furiously makes a public confrontation against everyone and demands whoever made the sign to meet him outside the building the following night.