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School ties Paramount Pictures ; screenplay by Dick Wolf and Darryl Ponicsan ; produced by Stanley R. Jaffe, Sherry Lansing ; directed by Robert Mandel. - Hollywood, Calif. Paramount 1999 - 1 videodisc (107 min.) sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. - 4 3/4 in. - Widescreen DVD collection .

Originally produced as motion picture in 1992.

Special features: Widescreen version enhanced for 16x9 televisions -- Interactive menus -- Scene selection -- Language: English 5.1 surround ; English Dolby surround ; French Dolby surround -- Subtitles: English.





Set in the 1950s: David Greene, a working-class Jewish quarterback from Scranton, Pennsylvania, is offered a football scholarship to a prestigious New England prep. school. It's David's ticket to an Ivy League education and a way out of his hometown, but there's one condition: the school's elders ask him to be discreet about his religion. At first willing to do so, David struggles with his silence as his popularity grows. David strikes up a friendship with his roommate Chris Reece and a possible romance with Sally Wheeler, a student at a nearby girls' school. But, when David's secret is exposed by a jealous classmate he faces the full force of religious intolerance from the prejudiced White Anglo-Saxon Protestant institution.

Rated PG-13.




For private home use only.


In English or French; closed-captioned.

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Preparatory schools--New England--Drama.
Antisemitism--New England--Drama.
Toleration.
Prejudices.
Jewish youth.
Antisemitism.
Preparatory schools.


New England.



PN1997 / .S346 1999

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