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 ...

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 ...

How did kids scramble for acceptance before the internet? Joseph Castelo’s The Preppie Connection posits that then, as now, you could get a lot of mileage from drugs. Its blasé narrator is Toby ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Check out the exclusive poster and a scene from Joseph Castelo's based-on-a-true-story film, which features the 'Me and Earl and the Dying Girl' star as a working-class prep school student using ...

Thomas Mann, the invisible “me” of last year’s “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,” plays a drug dealer in “The Preppie Connection.” It’s based on a mid-1980s American prep school that was exposed by “60 ...

Cocaine-snorting '80s teens get in over their heads in this factually inspired yet unconvincing drama. Hitting predictable notes head-on from the moment it begins with a framing-device crisis and the ...

This 1990 photo shows Derek Oatis in Connecticut. Oatis was arrested in 1984 for trafficking cocaine from Venezuela for his fellow prep school classmates at Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Conn.