I waited until after I read the novella by Stephen King before I watches this. Both are good but as nerdy as it sounds the book is better. Some of the things in the book I guess were too graphic to get the pg-13 rating they were aiming for. it's a great story though and not something you would really expect from Stephen King. The teenager actor slips up a bit as far as acting quality is concerned, but of course Ian is absolutely outstanding, as we all would expect.
Movie
Apt Pupil
1998
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…
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