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Apt Pupil: Directed by Bryan Singer. With Brad Renfro, Ian McKellen, Joshua Jackson, Mickey Cottrell. A boy blackmails his neighbor after suspecting him to be a Nazi war criminal.
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- 1998-10-23
Apt Pupil is a 1998 American thriller film directed by Bryan Singer and starring Ian McKellen and Brad Renfro. It is based on the 1982 novella of the same name by Stephen King . In the 1980s in southern California, high school student Todd Bowden (Renfro) discovers fugitive Nazi war criminal Kurt Dussander (McKellen) living in his neighborhood under the pseudonym Arthur Denker.
Oct 23, 1998 · 3 min read. “Apt Pupil” uses the horrors of the Holocaust as an atmospheric backdrop to the more conventional horror devices of a Stephen King story. It’s not a pretty sight. By the end of the film, as a death camp survivor is quoting John Donne’s poem about how no man is an island, we’re wondering what island the filmmakers were ...
Ian McKellen, left, plays a Nazi war criminal, and Brad Renfro a schoolboy in Bryan Singer's "Apt Pupil." But as he moves faster and faster, something terrible happens: long-dormant evil is rekindled and the old man begins to stomp as fiercely as he did for the Third Reich. "Boy, be careful," he hisses to his teen-age taskmaster.
Oct 23, 1998 · Bryan Singer. Stephen King. Brandon Boyce. One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles that of Kurt Dussander, a wanted Nazi war criminal. A month later, Todd decides to knock on his door.
Apt Pupil (1998)Apt Pupil (1998)Apt Pupil (1998)Apt Pupil (1998) Movie Info. Synopsis A high-school student (Brad Renfro) forms an unhealthy relationship with a former Nazi death-camp officer (Ian ...
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Cast and crew of «Apt Pupil» (1997). Roles and the main characters. Ian McKellen, Brad Renfro, David Schwimmer
