THE PREPPIE CONNECTION Trailer Debut Here is the first THE PREPPIE CONNECTION trailer! The film, written and directed by Joseph Castelo, stars Thomas Mann, Lucy Fry, and Logan Huffman. THE PREPPIE CONNECTION will be released in theaters on March 18. 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. The story centers on Toby, the lower-class scholarship student, who uses his street cred and access to drugs to make friends with the popular kids, eventually allowing him to cultivate a drug trafficking network. Toby gets in far over his head as he leads his friends into the dangerous world of Colombian drug cartels.