A Separate Peace
Gene and Finny are best friends and roommates, attending a prep boarding school in New England in 1942. Finny, a natural athlete, is charming and popular, while Gene is a very serious top student at the school. However, when Gene becomes convinced that Finny is trying to sabotage his grades in an attempt to beat him at school, a rift forms between them that only deepens with time. The result of this divide is a tragedy that changes all the boys at the school, and shocks them out of their last innocent days of adolescence.
- Runtime
- 20m
- Released
- 2011
Details
Release year: 2011
Storyline
Gene and Finny are best friends and roommates, attending a prep boarding school in New England in 1942. Finny, a natural athlete, is charming and popular, while Gene is a very serious top student at the school. However, when Gene becomes convinced that Finny is trying to sabotage his grades in an attempt to beat him at school, a rift forms between them that only deepens with time. The result of this divide is a tragedy that changes all the boys at the school, and shocks them out of their last innocent days of adolescence.
Top credits
- Samuel Adams — Finny
- Stephan Amenta — Gene
- Jonny Brennan — Leper
- Karen McFarlane — Mrs. Patch-Withers