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Apt Pupil
- Director: Bryan Singer
- Writer: Stephen King; Brandon Boyce
- Producer: Tom DeSanto; Jane Hamsher
CGiii Comment
Subtext and eroticism in a very peculiar way...
The character development is bewildering, Renfro becomes every bit as disturbing as McKellen - there is no disputing the chemistry between the two.
The direction is the weak link - there should have been a brittle tension and if that had been achieved - it would have been so chilling that icicles would have formed at the end of each and every nose.
Coldly compelling.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Neighborhood boy Todd Bowden (Renfro) discovers that an old man living on his block named Arthur Denker (Mackellan) is Nazi war criminal. Bowden confronts Denker and offers him a deal: Bowden will not go to the authorities if Denker tells him stories of the concentration camps in WWII. Denker agrees and Bowden starts visiting him regularly. The more stories Bowden hears, the more it affects his personality.
Cast & Characters
Brad Renfro as Todd Bowden;
Ian McKellen as Kurt Dussander;
Joshua Jackson as Joey;
Mickey Cottrell as Sociology Teacher;
Michael Reid MacKay as Nightmare Victim;
Ann Dowd as Monica Bowden;
Bruce Davison as Richard Bowden;
James Karen as Victor Bowden;
Marjorie Lovett as Agnes Bowden;
David Cooley as Gym Teacher;
Blake Anthony Tibbetts as Teammate;
Heather McComb as Becky Trask;
Katherine Malone as Student;
Grace Sinden as Secretary;
David Schwimmer as Edward French