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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.
In Stephen King's psychological thriller "Apt Pupil," readers are taken on a dark and chilling journey into the depths of human depravity. Published in 1982 as part of King's novella collection "Different Seasons," this gripping tale explores the unsettling relationship between a high school student and a Nazi war criminal hiding in plain sight.
Aug 27, 1982 · Apt Pupil is less a horror novel and more of a character study of two truly evil people. Arthur the Nazi despite being elderly is still an truly heinous person and Todd is a monster in the making. I liked this book but I understand why a lot of people don't. Apt Pupil is a slow build.
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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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- Crime, Drama, Thriller
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- 1998-10-23
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 ...
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Aug 27, 1982 · A 13-year-old boy who discovers that the true identity of an old man who lives in his area by the name of Arthur Denker is the Nazi war criminal Kurt Dussander. Banker who did some stock portfolio work for Arthur Denker. German war criminal a/k/a The "Blood Fiend of Patin".
