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GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT
SUBJECTS --- U.S./1945 - 1991 & Diversity;
SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING --- Male & Female Role Model;
MORAL-ETHICAL EMPHASIS --- Trustworthiness; Respect.
Age: 12+; Not Rated; Drama; 1947; 118 minutes; B & W.
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The year is 1947.
Phil Green, a journalist, has been
hired by a popular magazine to write a series of
articles about anti-Semitism in the U.S. He decides to pretend that
he is Jewish and to record the reactions of the people he meets.
While preparing the series, Phil meets Kathy Lacey, the
niece of his publisher. It was Kathy who had initially proposed the series of articles. She and Phil fall in love, but they find that Kathy has subtle and
previously hidden anti-Semitic feelings. These are unacceptable to
Phil, who believes that prejudice in all its forms is evil. Gentlemen's Agreement is
the story of Phil's experiences in writing the series and how he
and Kathy try to resolve their differences.
The lessons of Gentlemen's Agreement are not limited to anti-Semitism but apply to any type of prejudice. It builds on our empathy with Phil, the crusading journalist, and Kathy, a woman torn between the attitudes of her class and what she knows is right.
We are led to respect and like them both. As Kathy discovers her own prejudice, we come to understand how easily
bigotry and insensitivity can creep into our own attitudes. When Phil makes it clear that he will not marry Kathy unless she
changes, we empathize with her struggle to rid herself of prejudice. When she triumphs we are shown that like Kathy, we can eliminate prejudice in ourselves.
Because of its skillful use of a dramatic device to help its viewers to reconcile inconsistent parts of their
own personalities, Gentlemen's Agreement rates as one of the best films ever made.
The TeachWithMovies.com Learning Guide to this film will show teachers and parents how to guide children to understand how easily bigotry and insensitivity can creep into our own attitudes and how to root it out.
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To give you a sense of how our Learning Guides can be used by teachers as lesson plans and by parents to supplement school curriculum or for homeschooling, we have set out below a paragraph from the Learning Guide to Gentlemen's Agreement.
Prejudice against different races, ethnicities and other religions, once learned, is one of the hardest attitudes to change. Total elimination of prejudice is a lifelong project and even for mature adults who have spent years working to eliminate prejudice in their attitudes, it will crop up when you least expect it.
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