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The Preppie Connection (2015)

The Preppie Connection poster
Directed by
Joseph Castelo
Genre
drama film, independent film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 35m
Rated
R
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 102 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A prep school student and his friends start smuggling cocaine into their campus. The film follows how their operation takes shape and the pressure it puts on them.

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What happens

The Preppie Connection is a 2015 crime drama film co-written and directed by Joseph Castelo, based on the infamous 1984 incident where Choate Rosemary Hall student Derek Oatis, along with a handful of friends, ran a cocaine smuggling operation on the school's campus. The film stars Thomas Mann, Lucy Fry, Logan Huffman, Sam Page, Jessica Rothe, and Bill Sage. It had world premiere at the Hamptons International Film Festival on October 10, 2015. It was released in the United States on March 18, 2016, in select theaters and through video on demand by IFC Films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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