The film: Todd Bowden (Brad Renfro) discovers that his neighbour, Kurt Dussander (Ian McKellen), is a former Nazi Sturmbannführer who worked at a death camp during the Second World War. Fascinated ...

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1998's Apt Pupil is a Disney movie compared to Stephen King's horrific novella. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In reflection, ...

After a long and troubled journey, a film version of Stephen King's novella Apt Pupil has finally made it to the screen. Too bad it didn't take a lot longer. Directed with steamroller-like grace by ...

Years before his sexual assault allegations came to light, Bryan Singer followed up his breakthrough film, The Usual Suspects, with an adaptation of Stephen King’s short story, Apt Pupil. One of ...

Ian McKellen and Brad Renfro star in a dark drama about a sixteen-year-old honor student who recognizes an old man living in his hometown as a hunted Nazi. Compelled to reveal the secrets of his death ...

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.

Summary: A sixteen-year-old boy, Todd (Brad Renfo) becomes obsessed with Nazi war crimes whilst writing an essay on the subject. On the bus one day he recognises a fellow passenger as a former Gestapo ...