Netflix's 'Operation Varsity Blues' Trailer Skewers the Infamous College Admissions Scandal Rebecca Rubin, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Director: Chris Smith With: Matthew Modine, Rick Singer, John Vandemoer, Jillian Peterson, Roger Rignack, David Starzyk, Randy Hernandez, Josh Stamberg, William Christopher Stephens, Wallace Langham, David Lloyd Smith, Kristen O’Meara, Angela Nicholas. Netflix shines an unflattering light on the infamous college admissions scandal in the first trailer for the upcoming documentary “Operation Varsity Blues.” The film, using real conversations recreated from FBI wiretaps, delves deep into the 2019 nationwide scandal that gripped the country and saw rich and influential parents buy their kids’ ways into top schools.