School Ties (1992) review

Elite high school quarterback David Greene (Brendan Fraser) travels from Scranton, PA (but really the Lehigh Valley - that's the Bethlehem Steel!) to Massachusetts to attend prep school St. Matthew's and at first gets along well with everyone, but when he starts a romance with Sally Wheeler (Amy Locane) and "humiliates" his classmate Charlie (Matt Damon), his "secret" comes out that he's actually Jewish.  The anti-Semitism is laid on really thick (every stereotype you can think of is mentioned at least once), starting early on (in Northampton, PA) where a bunch of bikers pick a fight with Fraser and then it continues later when someone puts up a Nazi flag in his room, although I like his fearlessness in the face of irrational hate.  It may be obvious  - and those football scenes are not what you'd call gracefully directed - but what's impressive is how many future stars are in it: the casting was by Lisa Beach and Patricia McCorkle, who had to have looked into their crystal balls and seen decades down the road (I hope they also saw winning lottery numbers too).