It was three decades ago that Derek Oatis was busted at a New York airport with South American cocaine he intended to sell to his prep school classmates, a scandal that led to the arrest and expulsion of more than a dozen students at a prestigious Connecticut boarding school.

Now an attorney at the Manchester, Connecticut, Oatis said it was unnerving to relive the ordeal as he watched “The Preppie Connection,” an independent movie inspired by his story.

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