In 2015 , Mann starred in the film adaptation of Jesse Andrews ' novel , '' Me and Earl and the Dying Girl '' , which premiered on January 25 , 2015 at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival . The film was acquired by Fox Searchlight for $ 12 million , the most amount of money paid for a film at the festival , and was released on June 12 , 2015 in the United States . The same year , Mann appeared in '' The Stanford Prison Experiment '' , which also premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival ; Mann portrayed the role of Prisoner 416 . The film began a limited release on July 17 , 2015 , by IFC Films . Mann also appeared in '' Barely Lethal '' ; the film , which starred Sophie Turner and Hailee Steinfeld , was released on May 29 , 2015 in a limited release and through video on demand by DirecTV Cinema and A24 . Also that year , he starred as Tobias Hammell in the drama '' The Preppie Connection '' . The film is about Mann 's character , a student at a private school , using connections to start a drug trafficking network at the school
2015 Sundance Film Festival
2015 Sundance Film Festival
Thomas Mann (actor)