Apt Pupil

Based On the book by Stephen King

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 Apt Pupil 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. Bowden, obsessed with Nazism and acts of the Holocaust, persuades Dussander to share his stories, and their relationship stirs malice in each of them.

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Release date:

October 23, 1998

Director:

Bryan Singer

Cast:

Brad Renfro, Ian McKellen, Joshua Jackson, Bruce Davison, David Schwimmer

Genre:

Thriller, Horror, Drama

Country:

France, United States

Language:

English

Year page:

1998 in adaptations