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Apt Pupil Director: Bryan Singer Cast: Ian McKellen, Brad Renfro, Bruce Davison, Elias Koteas

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  • DVD Release Date: 04/13/1999
  • Original Release: 1998
  • Rating: Rated R
  • Sales Rank: 7,965

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Languages: English; Subtitles: English; Theatrical trailer; Scene selections; Making-of featurette; Full screen and widescreen formats

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Scene Index

Side #1 -- Widescreen
0. Scene Selections
1. Start [6:52]
2. Mr. Dussander [2:33]
3. Real Proof [5:12]
4. Gas Leak [4:17]
5. Dinner With Arthur [5:39]
6. Hitting the Showers [4:58]
7. Clothes Make the Man [6:11]
8. Timmy [3:09]
9. Broken Wing [1:43]
10. A Real Problem [2:02]
11. Grandpa Intervenes [5:49]
12. Reality [7:41]
13. Beginning & End [9:30]
14. Practically Neighbors [3:14]
15. Last Call [4:47]
16. "I Need Help." [1:22]
17. In the Cellar [3:56]
18. "I'm Dying." [1:14]
19. Saving Kurt's Life [1:18]
20. Evidence Destroyed [1:00]
21. "I Lied." [2:16]
22. Ben Kramer [4:51]
23. Dr. Isaac Weiskopf [1:58]
24. Graduation Day [1:34]
25. Icarus Speech [3:50]
26. Missing Letter [5:31]
27. Cheating the Hangman [1:59]
28. "Do We Have a Deal?" [6:26]
Side #2 -- Full Screen
0. Scene Selections
1. Start [6:52]
2. Mr. Dussander [2:33]
3. Real Proof [5:12]
4. Gas Leak [4:17]
5. Dinner With Arthur [5:39]
6. Hitting the Showers [4:58]
7. Clothes Make the Man [6:11]
8. Timmy [3:09]
9. Broken Wing [1:43]
10. A Real Problem [2:02]
11. Grandpa Intervenes [5:49]
12. Reality [7:41]
13. Beginning & End [9:30]
14. Practically Neighbors [3:14]
15. Last Call [4:47]
16. "I Need Help." [1:22]
17. In the Cellar [3:56]
18. "I'm Dying." [1:14]
19. Saving Kurt's Life [1:18]
20. Evidence Destroyed [1:00]
21. "I Lied." [2:16]
22. Ben Kramer [4:51]
23. Dr. Isaac Weiskopf [1:58]
24. Graduation Day [1:34]
25. Icarus Speech [3:50]
26. Missing Letter [5:31]
27. Cheating the Hangman [1:59]
28. "Do We Have a Deal?" [6:26]

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Editorial Reviews

Bryan Singer directed this Brandon Boyce adaptation of Stephen King's novella about teenager Todd Bowden (Brad Renfro), who discovers Nazi war criminal Kurt Dussander (Ian McKellen) living in his California hometown. Fascinated with Dussender's wartime atrocities, Bowden blackmails the former death-camp commandant by promising to keep his identity a secret in exchange for Holocaust horror tales, or, as Todd puts it, "everything they're afraid to show us in school." Dussander complies, and as the weeks pass, their tense confrontations become increasingly malevolent. This is the third film to derive from King's 1982 book of four novellas, Different Season. The others are Stand By Me (1986, from "The Body") and The Shawshank Redemption (1994, from Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, leaving only one remaining unfilmed tale in the book ("The Breathing Method"). Signet felt King's "Apt Pupil" to be so intense and horrifying that editors asked him to leave it out of the 1983 paperback. A 1987 attempt to film "Apt Pupil" (with Rick Schroder and Nicol Williamson) ended when funding ran out. Shown at numerous 1998 film festivals (Venice, Toronto, Chicago, Sitges, Tokyo). Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide

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October 04, 2004: I can't give this movie a good review because I read the novella by Stephen King. This movie leaves out so many crucial aspects as far as character development. There are major events that should have happened that don't in this movie. I was very disappointed. This could have been a much better, more disturbing movie that was true to the book.

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July 29, 2003: A movie is great, you cant find another like it. One time classic about nazi and a boy.