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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No one could accuse the new IFC movie, The Preppie Connection, of an implausible premise: The film, which opens today, is based on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Joseph Castelo explains what's at stake at a crucial moment toward the end of the film, in which star Thomas Mann ('Me and Earl and the Dying Girl') is unable to turn his back on what he's done, ...