School Ties

In the Autumn of 1955, working-class Jewish teenager David Greene (Brendan Fraser), from Scranton, Pennsylvania, receives a football scholarship to an exclusive Massachusetts prep school for his senior year due to his grades and ability to play football. Upon arrival, he meets his teammates Rip Van Kelt (Randall Batinkoff), Charlie Dillon (Matt Damon), Jack Connors (Cole Hauser), and his roommate Chris Reece (Chris O'Donnell), the most well known and popular students who are from well-to-do families, and learns of the school's cherished honor code system. Soon learning that his new friends are antisemites, he suppresses his background.