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The Preppie Connection

2015 · 95 min · Director: Joseph Castelo ★ IMDb 6.1 · 4,101 ratings

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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. 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.

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The Preppie Connection (2015) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Anxiety 30%, Excitement 25%, Guilt 15%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

  1. Guilt15%
  2. Envy15%

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Why it feels this way

The strongest emotional signals are Anxiety, Excitement, Guilt. Genres: Drama, Crime. AI estimate.

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Consider this title if you are looking for Anxiety, Excitement and Guilt. Its IMDb rating of 6.1/10 suggests a generally positive audience reception. For these leading emotions, its Feel Score is 62/100.

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Emotional journey

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  • Tension
  • Anxiety
  • Sadness

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No dominant emotion

Dominant emotion: Curiosity

Dominant emotion: Tension

Dominant emotion: Sadness

Dominant emotion: Anxiety

Dominant emotion: Love

Tension
Anxiety
Sadness
Emotional journey Emotional intensity over the film’s runtime, from quieter to stronger on a fixed 0–1 scale. Hatched intervals have insufficient subtitle evidence. The table provides the values.
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Dominant emotion

Intensity dips around 3 %, then dips around 48 %, then peaks around 88 %.Ending hidden

Emotional journey
%Approximate minuteDominant emotionOverall intensityTensionAnxietySadness
2.5 %≈ 2′Curiosity42 %27 %18 %17 %
7.5 %≈ 7′Tension43 %34 %23 %16 %
12.5 %≈ 12′Curiosity43 %36 %25 %19 %
17.5 %≈ 17′Sadness44 %32 %25 %26 %
22.5 %≈ 21′Sadness44 %30 %28 %25 %
27.5 %≈ 26′Curiosity45 %36 %34 %15 %
32.5 %≈ 31′Curiosity56 %53 %45 %9 %
37.5 %≈ 36′Tension61 %59 %50 %10 %
42.5 %≈ 40′Curiosity48 %44 %38 %15 %
47.5 %≈ 45′Curiosity41 %38 %31 %16 %
52.5 %≈ 50′Tension48 %46 %36 %14 %
57.5 %≈ 55′Tension53 %53 %38 %21 %
62.5 %≈ 59′Tension60 %57 %46 %35 %
67.5 %≈ 64′Anxiety63 %51 %50 %32 %
72.5 %≈ 69′Love61 %46 %45 %19 %
77.5 %≈ 74′Tension68 %61 %57 %13 %
82.5 %≈ 78′Anxiety75 %73 %71 %26 %
87.5 %≈ 83′Sadness80 %69 %68 %57 %
92.5 %≈ 88′Sadness78 %53 %51 %74 %
97.5 %≈ 93′Sadness68 %33 %35 %68 %
Riches to rags

Rags to riches: The emotional tone rises from negative to positive.

Riches to rags: The emotional tone falls from positive to negative.

Man in a hole: The tone falls, then recovers.

Icarus: The tone rises, then falls.

Cinderella: The tone rises, falls, then rises again.

Oedipus: The tone falls, rises, then falls again.

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Cast

Thomas Mann

Tobias Hammel

LH
Logan Huffman

Ellis Tynes

AH
Amy Hargreaves

Ingrid

Bill Sage

Mike Hammel

SP
Sam Page

Mr. Jennings

RW
Ryan Ward

Piper

RG
Robert Gorrie

Ben

HM
Hemky Madera

Raul

DB
Dylan Blue

Dennis

GA
Guillermo Arribas

Fidel

ND
Nat DeWolf

Mr. Gaines

Details

Directed by
Joseph Castelo
Written by
Joseph Castelo, Ashley Rudden
Type
Movies
Released
2015
Runtime
95 min
Country
Puerto Rico, United States
Genres
Drama, Crime
Ratings
★ IMDb 6.1 · 4,101 ratings
Feels mostly
Anxiety
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