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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 ...
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. Set in a fictional suburb of ...
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.
Kurt Dussander (1898-1978) is the main antagonist from Apt Pupil. Dussander was born in Germany in 1898 and joined the Schutzstaffel (SS) in the 1930s, receiving an officer's commission. During the war he was one of the many members of the SS tasked with carrying out the "Final Solution," the elimination of Jews and all other enemies of the Nazi state. Before, during, or sometime after the ...
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
- Bryan Singer
- 1998-10-23
Schwimmer plays Edward French, Todd Bowden's high school guidance counselor. Before Schwimmer, Kevin Pollak was attached to the role. While Schwimmer was known for his comedic role on the television show Friends, Singer was impressed by the actor's performance in a Los Angeles stage production and decided to cast him as the counselor.
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Based on the story by Stephen King Starring Ian McKellen, Brad Renfro, and David Schwimmer. Directed by Bryan Singer. An American teenager discovers an ex-Nazi concentration camp commander living in his suburban neighborhood. He confronts the old man and threatens to expose him unless he will agree to tell him everything he can remember about ...
