Special features of this DVD: full and widescreen presentation ; chapter search ; Dolby Digital.

Film based on the novel by Chaim Potok.

Originally released as a motion picture by Twentieth Century Fox, 1981.

Director of photography, Arthur Ornitz ; music, Elmer Bernstein.

Robby Benson, Barry Miller, Rod Steiger, Maximilian Schell.

Two Jewish teenagers in 1940s New York meet as playground rivals. After accidentally injuring Reuven, Danny calls on him at home to apologize. Their wariness turns to fascination and close friendship as each discovers and admires the other's differences. Reuven is experienced, practical, and worldly-wise; while Danny is brilliant and mystical, incredibly erudite in some matters, but incredibly naive in others. To humble him, his father, an immigrant rabbi, has followed the stern tradition of raising him in silence. He thirsts for the wider knowledge represented by Reuven's environment; while Reuven is enraptured by Danny's close-knit family and synagogue community. But can their friendship survive the sharp differences between Danny's ultra Orthodoxy and Reuven's Modern Orthodox Judaism? Danny's people oppose the State of Israel as fanatically as Reuven and his father are working to create it. The issue threatens to make them enemies once again.

MPAA rating: PG.

Audio tracks in English and Spanish ; subtitled in English and Spanish ; closed captioned for the hearing impaired.