Film.com's FREE movie of the week is "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror." This 1922 classic of cinema based on Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (but with names changed) directed by F.W. Murnau and starring Max Schrek in one of films most famous and frightening make-up jobs.
Set in the 1950s, the story of a young man who enters a prestigious prep school on an athletic scholarship and doesn't quite fit in with the upscale, anti-semitic crowd.
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December 8, 2000
School Ties640 10-1-92 This drama about Antisemitism in a New England prep school, circa 1955, has long been a pet project for producers Sherry Lansing and Stanley R. Jaffe. They've caught the period nicely and hired a vigorous young cast -- topped by Brendan Fraser (Encino Man). But good intentions go for naught as director Robert Mandel (F/X) pounds home every contrivance in the script by Darryl Ponicsan (Taps). Fraser's David Greene (a surname shared by the Gregory Peck character in Gentleman's