By: Borys Kit

“Veronica Mars” star Kristen Bell, Lou Taylor Pucci and John Hensley will star in “Fifty Pills” for first-time director Theo Avgerinos and Coalition Film.

The coalition is the newly formed independent production and sales company founded by writer-producer Matthew Perniciaro.

The film follows college student Darren Giles (Pucci) who, after losing his scholarship, must sell 50 Ecstasy pills in a day in order to make his tuition payment so that he can stay with his girlfriend (Bell). Hensley plays Pucci’s metrosexual roommate who supplies the drugs.

Also joining the cast are Nora Zehetner (”Everwood”), Eddie Kaye Thomas (”American Pie”), Monica Keena (”Freddy vs. Jason”), Daniel Spink (”American Pie”), Donnell Rawlings (”Chappelle’s Show”) and Rachel Boston (”American Dreams”).

Along with Coalition and Perniciaro, the film is being produced in conjunction with PalmStar Entertainment, which is co-financing, and producers Kevin Mann and Jake Demaray.

Perniciaro recently co-wrote and was a producer on “Standing Still,” starring Mena Suvari, James Van Der Beek and Colin Hanks, for Insomnia Entertainment. He is repped by Untitled Entertainment and Sloss Law.

Bell, who also appeared in “Spartan,” is repped by manager Emily Gerson Saines and attorney Ira Schreck..