School Ties (1993, VHS)

School Ties (1992) is really a pretty fantastic movie that helped begin the careers of several young actors. Ironically, Brendan Fraser stars in the leading role as David Greene, a Jewish teen from Pennsylvania who gets a scholarship to a pre-Ivy league high school so that he can play quarterback for their football team. Matt Damon comes second, as he stars as Charlie Dillon, a jealous rich brat who tries to have David expelled from school. Ben Affleck has a constant role in the film, yet with very few lines. He is a just another student at the school. My, how things have changes for the...

This movie stars Brendan Fraser as a Jewish student in a anti-semetic 1950 prep school for gifted students. It is an all boys school, starring Matt Damon, Ben affleck and Chris o'Donnell. He hides the fact that he is Jewish from his peers because he is poor and doesn't want to lose an opportunity to go to this school on scholarship, and his buddies always make Jewish jokes that are full of hatred and anger. This movie is awful in the cruelness, especially when the other kids find out, but it sends a message that there is no place for hatred and ignorance in society. You feel the sadness of...

I have been an adoring fan of Brendan Fraser since his first appearance in the film, "Dogfight." I enjoyed every bit of his performance in the 1992 movie "School Ties." I love this movie so much that I've watched it over 20 times. In School Ties, Fraser's role is the Jewish football star named David Green. David Green is the son of a coal miner who later learns the hard lessons of life when he is given the opportunity to attend a very well-established parochial high school. This movie educates us about the prejudices of the ignorant. Greene was trying to concealed his Jewish heritage but it...