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- Based on a true story of a prep school student who smuggled $300k of uncut cocaine into the US in 1984.
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Mar 18, 2016 · More than 30 years later, his colossal teenage missteps have inspired a movie, The Preppie Connection, now in theaters and on demand.
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.
Apr 8, 2016 · How Derek Oatis went from a teenage outsider to private school drug kingpin. ONE minute, Derek Oatis, 17, was handing over $5000 to three armed men in exchange for 350 grams of cocaine. The next ...
Based on the wild story of a teen drug trafficker who rocked headlines in 1984, this true crime caper stars Thomas Mann (ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL) as Toby, a blue-collar scholarship student at an elite boarding school who finds an in with the cool crowd by supplying them with cocaine.
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Mar 18, 2016 · Set in the 1980s — and based on a true story— “The Preppie Connection” relies on a pulsing synthesizer score to evoke nostalgia for old teensploitation flicks. An incessant Mann...
Mar 18, 2016 · Based on a true story of a prep school student who smuggled $300k of uncut cocaine into the US in 1984. THE PREPPIE CONNECTION chronicles the exploits of a group of private school students who ran a drug distribution operation in the early 1980s.
Jun 18, 2016 · Yes, all of the characters were based on real people but all of the names were changed and some of their storylines were compressed for dramatic purposes. I met with the real person, Derek Oatis but the actors only watched interviews with Derek after his arrest.
