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The Fraternity is a canadien film of genre Thriller directed by Sidney J. Furie with Treat Williams

The Fraternity (2002)

The Fraternity
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Length 1h33
Directed by
OriginCanada
Genres Thriller
Rating51% 2.5602552.5602552.5602552.5602552.560255

The Fraternity (also known as The Circle) is a Canadian thriller film about a circle of friends that create an elite club while at the Runcie High School and cheat on an exam. The subsequent pressure on the administration for someone in the circle to be a "rat", and finding one of the students dead, prompts one of their members to search for the truth. The film was primarily shot at Bishop Ridley College in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, where the school's prominent initials around campus conveniently matched those of Runcie College.

Synopsis

A group of high school seniors decide to create a secret society and have fun cruising around campus, pulling pranks and having poker parties in an abandoned boiler room. However, the circle decides to escalate things, by cheating on an exam. They all get "A"'s, but Mr. Spencer Runcie is convinced that they cheated, but just cannot prove it. The circle of friends and every other student who got an "A" are sent before an honor committee, where someone does name one name: Frazier, who is expelled. Although Runcie will not say who the rat is, the circle suspects that it is the nerdy Faulkner. His roommate and fellow circle member, Alex, who has been helping Faulkner impress a girl, Tess, with some love letters, assures his fellow circle members that Faulkner is not the rat.

Actors

Treat Williams

(Mr. Spencer Runcie)
Robin Dunne

(Alex Desineau)
Malin Åkerman

(Tess)
Alex Karzis
Gordon Currie

(Tom Wilkinson)
Reuben Rox

(Student)
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