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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

IFC Films acquired North American rights to Joseph Castelo’s drama “The Preppie Connection” starring Thomas Mann, Variety has learned exclusively. “The Preppie Connection” had its world premiere on ...

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 ...

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. Hitting predictable notes head-on from the moment it begins with a framing-device crisis and the protagonist’s voiceover narration ...