School Ties

Just because you’re accepted doesn’t mean you belong.

Plot Summary

When David Greene receives a football scholarship to a prestigious prep school in the 1950s, he feels pressure to hide the fact that he is Jewish from his classmates and teachers, fearing that they may be anti-Semitic. He quickly becomes the big man on campus thanks to his football skills, but when his Jewish background is discovered, his worst fears are realized and his friends turn on him with violent threats and public ridicule.

6.5 /10

1992

US

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scholarship

sports

massachusetts

coming of age

judaism

anti-semitism

preparatory school

1950s