Overall, I felt like this movie was too short. In the 1950s, a Jewish student (Brendan Fraser) is invited to a posh prep school in Boston for his abilities in football during his senior year. He grows close to his peers, only to realize that they have tremendous pressures placed on them by their families. Some of these young boys reach their breaking point. Some commit suicide or try – because they fear they won’t be the 5th generation in their family to attend Princeton or Harvard.

Meanwhile, Fraser hides his religion, knowing they would hate him simply for being a Jew. When they learn the truth, everyone turns on him.

And that’s pretty much the end of the movie. The meat of the movie builds on offhand comments made by his peers about Jews. The conflict comes too close to the end and there is little resolution to it. Fraser just reiterates the fact that this prep school used him for football (while he’s forced to suffer and be treated differently because he’s a Jew) so he’s going to use them to get to Harvard. There were no new ideas there, as this fact was established within the first 15 minutes of the movie.

I was scratching my head toward the end because I felt like there should be something more to it all.