The Preppie Connection

2015
R
1h 35m

IMDb RATING

6.1/10

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Logan Huffman, Thomas Mann, and Lucy Fry in The Preppie Connection (2015)

A private school student uses his connections to establish a drug trafficking network.

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True Crime Crime Drama

A student at a private school uses his connections to establish a drug trafficking network there.A student at a private school uses his connections to establish a drug trafficking network there.A student at a private school uses his connections to establish a drug trafficking network there.

Director
- Joseph Castelo
Writers
- Ashley Rudden
- Joseph Castelo
Stars

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IMDb RATING

6.1/10

YOUR RATING

Director
- Joseph Castelo
Writers
- Ashley Rudden
- Joseph Castelo
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 2 wins total

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Storyline

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Trivia
It was hard for Derek Oatis to watch the film saying: "I had a hard time revisiting the stuff. It prompted a return to therapy. I had a huge amount of guilt for what I did to my family. But in a weird way, it helped me process this stuff in a way I never had."

Goofs
the $100 bills used to buy the cocaine during the bidding war are newbie prints/modern bills.

Crazy credits
There is a snippet with Ed Bradley interviewing Derek Oatis during the end credits. Derek Oatis was the real life drug smuggler that this story is based upon.

Connections
Edited from 60 Minutes (1968)

Soundtracks
Just Like Honey
Written by Jim Reid and William Reid
Performed by Sam Bisbee
Courtesy of Domino Publishing Company Ltd.

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Featured review

7/10

Better Than The Critics Say

While it's not a great movie, it is still interesting and worthwhile. A lot of what gives it value is that is based on a true story, Although there's a lot of looseness from the true story, it seems to capture it the general gist of the story pretty well. Though far from Oscar material, the film was competently made and decently acted.

It's based on the Choate Rosemary Hall drug scandal, which can easily be googled. There's a nice story from by Newsweek around the time the film was released based upon an interview with Derek Oatis, the real-life protagonist. Since the film doesn't really say what happened afterwards, he was sentenced to 5 years of probation and 5,000 hours of community service. At the time of the Newsweek article, he was an attorney practicing civil and criminal law, so it was nice to learn that his life wasn't ruined by this.