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Plot summary
Luke McNamara comes from a working class background and attends an Ivy League college on a scholarship, where he is captain of the rowing team and hopes to become a lawyer. His closest friends are Chloe Whitfield and Will Beckford, the team's coxswain. The Skulls, a secret society whose members include wealthy families, judges and senators, invites him to join, and Luke hopes it will help him get into Harvard Law. His initiation partners him with Caleb Mandrake, a boxing prodigy the society calls his co-conspirator and soulmate. Luke also draws the attention of Caleb's father, Judge Litten Mandrake, the society's chairman, and of Senator Ames Levritt. Will disapproves of the Skulls, which strains their friendship.
Cast
- David Asmanas Jason Pitcairn
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Skulls (2000)
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- Director Rob Cohen said the set was intense because in his mind he was telling the story of George Senior and George W. Bush, and that he was excited to portray how the elite knits together bonds that take its members through life and keep them at the top of society.
- Many of the University of Toronto's most notable buildings play the film's locations: part of University College stands in for the Skulls' headquarters, the Skulls' leader's office is in Trinity College, the rival society is headquartered in the student council building, and the protagonists live and eat in Burwash Hall.
- The film's plot is built on some of the real conspiracy theories that surround Yale University's Skull and Bones student society.
