‘School Ties’ deemed powerful, successful
“School Ties”
By Stacie Hakel
Staff Reporter
Although school neckties and dis
crimination have nothing to do with
each other, they do in the latest box
office hit, “School Tics.”
Selin 1955, David Greene (Brendan
Fraser) is granted a football Scholar
ship to play quarterback at Saint
Matthew’s preparatory school for his
senior year in high school.
David meets the stuck-up rich boys
of Saint Matthews and is included in
their group.
David hastens to tell them that he
is Jewish even though he fears perse
cution by his newly found friends, but
he ignores their discriminatory re
marks.
He then meets the beautiful Sally
Wheeler (Amy Locanc) with whom
he falls in love instantly, and they
soon become a couple.
Butas David starts to enjoy his stay
at Saint Matthew’s, trouble brews.
One of David’s friends, Dillon
(Matt Damon), must give up his cher
ished position at quarterback and his
girlfriend, Sally, to David.
Dillon seeks revenge, and soon
everyone finds out that David is Jew
ish.
David’s “friends” turn on him, and
he no longer is accepted by them or
Sally.
He keeps to himself for the time
being until one day in history class.
The history teacher finds a cheat
sheet on the floor after an exam. He
threatens his students with failing
grades if the cheater docs not come
forward.
But little docs Dillon know that
David saw him cheat.
The class has a difficult decision to
make: whether to blame Dillon, a
long-time friend, or David, the new
Jewish kid.
With a cast of marvelous actors,
this powerful and impressive movie
touches the issues that were of con
cern in the 1950s and still today.
Fraser as David, is a far cry from
his role in “Encino Man.”
In “School Tics,” he plays the se
rious character of a clean-cut football
player, in contrast to a dirty caveman.
Fraser managed to play the part of
David brilliantly, even shedding tears
in some scenes.
Damon (“Mystic Pizza”)as Dillon,
played a complicated and intricate
role of a bigot seeking revenge with
the utmost sincerity.
Produced by Sherry Lansing and
Stanley R. Jaffc (“Black Rain,” “Fa
tal fraction”), “School Tics” is an
extraordinary movie dealing with
problems of discrimination, school
and parental pressures and economic
backgrounds.
Jaffe and Lansing have been inter
ested in doing a film on an exploration
of antisemitism since the formation of
Jaffc/Lansing Productions nine years
ago.
Courtesy of Paramount Pictures
Brendan Fraser stars as David Grfeene, a Jewish student in
1955, in “School Ties.”
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