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Mara received her first credit on the 1989 film “The Preppie Murder” and last appeared in the 2020 film “Break Even.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2022

Her first credited work is the 1989 film “The Preppie Murder.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2022

Her earliest acting credit goes back to the 1989 movie “The Preppie Murder.”

From Seattle Times • Jun. 27, 2022

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

From Washington Times • Mar. 23, 2016

The Preppie* label derives, of course, from the clothes in which young aspirants to the gentry are expected to show up at the better preparatory schools on either side of the Atlantic.

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