The Preppie Connection
Based on a true story, the movie follows a drug-dealing student at a prep school as he travels to Colombia to try and smuggle cocaine back into the United States. But he gets in far over his head as he leads his friends into the dangerous world of drug cartels there.
26 June 1990, Pequannock, New Jersey, USA
3 April 1962, New York City, New York, USA
5 November 1976, Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, USA
March 15, 2016
Toby and co. come across as a pale, anti-intellectual imitation of the college-aged friends in Donna Tartt's The Secret History - a novel that explores the roots of its characters' moral recklessness rather than just chalking it up to teenage feelings.
March 30, 2016
A dramatized real-life scandal of 1980s prep-school drug dealing plays like a tepid compilation of fictive cliches in The Preppie Connection.
March 17, 2016
Toby is so un-self-aware that his journey seems like mere obtuseness; what the film has to say about youthful degeneracy is less than zero.
April 05, 2016
An edgy drama and an effective cautionary tale well worth seeing.
April 14, 2016
The movie needs the audacity of a "Trainspotting" to lift it above the norm.
March 24, 2016
As written, Toby is somewhat of an empty slate, and Mann doesn't do much to fill in the blanks.
March 21, 2016
[A] shallow and profoundly unexciting "true-life account" of one student's brief reign as a campus drug lord.
March 17, 2016
Nearly everything about "The Preppie Connection" - from the high-school class war to the flat, explanatory narration - has been cribbed from other, better films.
March 18, 2016
This film fails even to evoke the '80s in costumes, soundtrack or other atmospherics.
