Is that Harvard on the Silver Screen?

With Honors, 1994 A double feature of this movie with 'Dead Poet’s Society' could make one swear off topsiders and tweed forever. Joe Pesci plays a (Harvard-educated) homeless man who gives undergrad Brendan Fraser a lesson in what really matters in life. Filming took place at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Boston Athenaeum, with a few exterior shots filmed on Harvard campus. Director Alex Keshishian is a Harvard alum.
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By Sarah Thomas / Town Correspondent

With Honors, 1994

A double feature of this movie with "Dead Poet’s Society" could make one swear off topsiders and tweed forever. Joe Pesci plays a (Harvard-educated) homeless man who gives undergrad Brendan Fraser a lesson in what really matters in life. Filming took place at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Boston Athenaeum, with a few exterior shots filmed on Harvard campus. Director Alex Keshishian is a Harvard alum.