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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.
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.
Oct 23, 1998 · 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.
Oct 23, 1998 · "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.
A high-school student (Brad Renfro) forms an unhealthy relationship with a former Nazi death-camp officer (Ian McKellen).
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In southern California in 1984, 16-year-old high school student Todd Bowden (Brad Renfro) discovers that his elderly neighbor, Arthur Denker (Ian McKellen), is really Kurt Dussander a former Nazi Obersturmbannführer who is now a fugitive war criminal.
Aug 27, 1982 · Apt Pupil is the story of Todd Bowden, a brilliant kid that somehow finds out that a Nazi war criminal, Kurt Dussander, lives nearby. But instead of turning him out, Todd decides to feed his own psychopathic tendencies and so he learns from Dussander.
Aug 27, 1982 · Apt Pupil. Released. August 27th, 1982. Available Format (s) In Collection / Paperback. A golden California schoolboy and an old man whose hideous past he uncovers enter into a fateful and chilling mutual parasitism. Available In. Name. Type. Date. Different Seasons. Story Collection. August 1982. Characters. Show List. Name. Description. Blondi.
Oct 23, 1998 · Apt Pupil Productions. Distributor (s) Sony Pictures/Tristar. High school student, Todd Bowden (played by Brad Renfro), is fascinated by Nazi Germany. He discovers that a former SS war criminal, Kurt Dussander (played by Ian McKellen) is secretly living in his home town.
King’s novella, “Apt Pupil,” is a riveting example of his ability to weave suspense and moral ambiguity into a compelling narrative. A quintessential Stephen King thriller, it plumbs the depths of darkness that can lie dormant in the most unexpected places.
