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.
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.
Nearly everything about "The Preppie Connection" - from the high-school class war to the flat, explanatory narration - has been cribbed from other, better films.