Apt Pupil

Apt Pupil
by Bryan Singer

Apt Pupil
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Actor: Brad Renfro, Ian McKellen, Joshua Jackson, Michael Reid MacKay, Mickey Cottrell
Director: Bryan Singer
Brand: MCKELLEN,IAN
Producer: Bryan Singer
Producer: Don Murphy
Producer: Jane Hamsher
Producer: Jay Shapiro
Producer: John Ottman
Writer: Brandon Boyce
Writer: Stephen King
DVD: 2 Sides, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 2.35:1
Running Time: 111 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-04-13
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures

Movie Reviews of Apt Pupil

Movie Review: my private review
Summary: 5 Stars

this DVD, being in region 2, i watch the film in English and in German with German subtitles. one of the best dvd's i have, the film deals with the atrocities of ww2, and trying to understand why it happened. you can argue, that the German officers did what they did. if not, they were disposed of.a great film, if your a history buff. Sir ian mckellen and the late brad renfro were superb.

Summary of Apt Pupil

A student studying the Holocaust recognizes an old man as Nazi war criminal in hiding and decides to introduce himself.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 23-MAR-2004
Media Type: DVD
At the top of his game, Stephen King has a real gift for mining monsters--zero-at-the-bone horror--out of everyday faces and places. Adapted from a novella in the 1982 collection that also spawned Stand by Me and The Shawshank Redemption, Apt Pupil looks at first as if it might draw authentically enlightening terror from the soul-cancer that makes blood relations of a Southern California golden boy (Brad Renfro) and an aging Nazi war criminal (Sir Ian McKellen). Turned on by a high-school course about the Holocaust, Todd Bowden (such a bland handle for this top-of-his-class sociopath!) tracks down Kurt Dussander, a former Gestapo killer hiding in the shadows of sunny SoCal. Blackmailing the old man into sharing his firsthand stories of genocide, the teenager trips out on the virtual reality of the monster's memories. There's perverse play here on the way a kid hungry for knowledge can bring a long-retired teacher or grandparent back to life. Truly superb as James Whale in Gods and Monsters, McKellen brings subtlety to this Stephen King creepshow: his dessicated Dussander is like a mummy or vampire revivified by Todd's appetite for atrocity.

Considerable talent intersects in Apt Pupil: It's director Bryan Singer's first film since The Usual Suspects, that enormously popular, rather heartless thriller-machine. The outstanding cast also includes David Schwimmer as a Jewish guidance counselor pathetically impotent in the face of Todd's talent for evil, and Bruce Davison as Todd's All-American Dad, lacking the capacity to even imagine evil. And the story itself has the potential for gazing into the heart of darkness right here in Hometown, U.S.A. But Apt Pupil just turns ugly and unclean when it trivializes its subject, equating Holocaust horrors with slamming a cat into an oven or offing a nosy vagrant (Elias Koteas). Reducing the great spiritual abyss that lies at the center of the 20th century to cheap slasher-movie thrills and chills is reprehensible. Both Todd and the writers of Apt Pupil should have heeded the old saw: When supping with the devil, best use a long spoon. --Kathleen Murphy

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