Features: DVD, Widescreen, Dolby, Digital Audio, English, Dolby Digital (5.1), Dolby Surround Sound
Brendan Fraser leads an all-star cast including Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Chris O'Donnell in this acclaimed coming-of-age drama.
After receiving a scholarship to an exclusive prep school, working-class teen David Green (Fraser) becomes a star athlete and wins the attention of a beautiful debutante (Amy Locane). But the ties of his newfound friendships are broken when a student reveals the secret David has tried to conceal-he is Jewish.
Now David must take the most important stand of his life, one that will touch the lives of many and forever change the course of his future.
Editor's Note
A working-class teenager receives a football scholarship to an elite New England prep school and enjoys acceptance as the team hero--until his classmates discover he is Jewish.
Plot Summary
David Greene a good student and a great football player has been given the chance he has always hoped for, a prep boarding school education. A working class Jewish teenager he knows this opportunity to play ball at the academy will get him into the Ivy League university of his choice. In school, he keeps his religion a secret from his wealthy, prejudiced classmates. As the star player, David becomes the big man on campus. Yet after his heritage is revealed, the deep-seated hatred of his schoolmates rises to the surface.
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