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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.
Publication date. 1982. Apt Pupil (1982) is a novella by Stephen King subtitled "Summer of Corruption", originally published in the 1982 novella collection Different Seasons with a more dramatic bent, rather than the horror fiction for which King is famous. [ 1 ]Apt Pupil consists of 30 chapters, many of which are headed by a month.
Including those sequences would SURELY have led to the movie getting a NC-17 rating, which is a big handicap for most films. (Of about 240 films rated NC-17, fewer than 25% have kept that rating rather than surrendering or re-editing the film to get an R). You also would have been asking a 15-year-old actor to make a film in which he ...
Horror. Sci-fi. Stephen King. Apt Pupil is film based on the book. Ian McKellen as Kurt Dussander/Arthur Denker Brad Renfro as Todd Bowden.
May 25, 2020 · But Apt Pupil will likely leave you feeling disgusted and without much to show for it. The Film. The original attempt to adapt Apt Pupil came in 1987 with Alan Bridges directing and starring the great talents of Nicol Williamson and Rick Schroder. They actually filmed for ten weeks, but a lack of funding placed the film on hold and the project ...
Apt Pupil. Sir Ian McKellen and Brad Renfro star in this disturbing psychological thriller that addresses the question of evil and its power to corrupt. Todd Bowden (Renfro) is a typical, bright 16 year-old high school student who develops a fascination with the atrocities of Nazi Germany when it becomes the topic of study in his history class.
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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.
