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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 ...
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.
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.
Synopsis. 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.
Oct 23, 1998 · Roger Ebert October 23, 1998. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. "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.
Aug 27, 1982 · Stephen King. 3.92. 35,769 ratings1,730 reviews. Todd Bowden is an apt pupil. Good grades, good family, a paper route. But he is about to meet a different kind of teacher: Mr. Dussander. Todd knows all about Dussander's dark past. The torture. The death. The decades-old manhunt Dussander has escaped to this day.
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.
