No one could accuse the new IFC movie, The Preppie Connection, of an implausible premise: The film, which opens today, is based on a 1984 cocaine-smuggling scandal at the prestigious Choate Rosemary ...

A dramatized real-life scandal of 1980s prep-school drug dealing plays like a tepid compilation of fictive cliches in “The Preppie Connection.” Joseph Castelo’s third feature stars Thomas Mann (“Me ...

MANCHESTER, Conn. (AP) — It was three decades ago that Derek Oatis was busted at a New York airport with South American cocaine he intended to sell to his prep school classmates, a scandal that led to ...

Vampire Academy's Lucy Fry has joined drug-trafficking drama The Preppie Connection. The film will be directed by The War Within's Joe Castelo and chronicles a group of private school students who ran ...

“Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” star Thomas Mann stays in high school for “The Preppie Connection,” a ripped-from-yesterday’s-headlines drug thriller with a coming-of-age twist. Writer-director ...

For a working-class boy on scholarship at an elite private school, fitting in can be a challenge. In “The Preppie Connection,” Toby finds the answers lie in studying GQ magazine, kitting himself out ...

Joe Castelo‘s ’80s private school drug ring film The Preppie Connection has accepted actor Logan Huffman into its click. Huffman will play Ellis Tynes, one of the wealthiest men at the school who is ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hitting predictable notes head-on from the moment it begins with a framing-device crisis and the protagonist’s voiceover narration ...