School Ties is a 1992 film directed by Robert Mandel starring Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Chris O'Donnell, Cole Hauser, Randall Batinkoff, and Anthony Rapp. Fraser plays the lead role as David Greene, a Jewish high school student who transfers from a Pennsylvania public school to a New England prep school in his senior year after he is awarded an athletic scholarship. David Greene is a working-class teenager from Scranton, Pennsylvania during the 1950s who is given a football scholarship to an exclusive Massachusetts prep school for his senior year, quickly becoming the school's... starting quarterback. David becomes the team hero and wins the attentions of beautiful débutante Sally Wheeler . In the afterglow of a victory over the school's chief rival, the ties of his newfound friendships are broken when jealous classmate Charlie Dillon reveals that David is Jewish, which David had been trying to conceal. David soon finds himself fighting a battle alone after Sally and his teammates turn against him, and it all comes to a head when David is falsely accused of cheating during a history exam.
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| Release date: | September 18, 1992 |
| Directed by: | Robert Mandel |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 106 Minutes |
| Producer: | Stanley R. Jaffe, Sherry Lansing |
| Music by: | Maurice Jarre |
| Screenplay by: | Darryl Ponicsan, Dick Wolf |