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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Lucy Fry is beauty in green while attending an AOL Build Speaker Series at AOL Studios on Friday (March 18) in New York City. The 24-year-old Australian actress was joined by her The Preppie ...

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 ...

MANCHESTER >> 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 the arrest ...