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  1. 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 ...

  2. Aug 29, 2020 · While burying one of his victims, the Nazi has a heart attack, and his identity is discovered when he ends up sharing a hospital room with a Holocaust survivor. The Nazi had previously posed as the Todd's grandfather in a meeting with his guidance counselor, so when the guidance counselor confronts the boy about the deception, Todd kills him ...

  3. Sep 22, 2023 · Apt Pupil is one of Stephen King's darkest stories, exploring the disturbing relationship between a manipulative teenager and an ex-Nazi officer.; The movie adaptation, directed by Bryan Singer ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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.

  6. 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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  8. Sep 11, 1998 · A creepy, well-acted story of contagious evil, "Apt Pupil" has more than enough chilling dramatic scenes to rivet the attention but suffers from some hokey contrivances and underlying ...