Ann Dowd, Brad Renfro, Bruce Davidson
A boy blackmails his neighbour after suspecting him to be a Nazi war criminal.
DVD Release Date: April 13, 1999
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Flixster Reviews (1,106)
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July 27, 2009Young high school student Todd Bowden uncovers that an old man in his neighbourhood is really Nazi war criminal Kurt Dussander under the name of Arthur Denker. Bowden offers not to turn Dussander in if he agrees to tell him what it was like to carry out the crimes he did during t...( read more)
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April 24, 2009Apt Pupil has some really great ideas and some fascinating characters. It's a shame that the script doesn't revel in it's strengths. Renfro and McKellen make a fearsome double act. They have great chemistry, each taking turn as mentor and student. The balance of power shifts ofte...( read more)
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March 19, 2009Not a review:
This was one of those 90s movies that I found quite intriguing and yet very disturbing when I was a kid. I just saw it again on tv the other day and just realized how many good actors were in this movie, at that time some of them were just starting out. I th...( read more) -
October 25, 2008There's something about the idea of evil genuises that I really really like. And when they're paired in mutually parasitic, symbiotic and antagonistic relationships, all the better. The changing leverage that both characters have over each other is fascinating, and all other char...( read more)
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November 16, 2009Without a powerful performance by Ian McKellen this movie would be a total failure.
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June 22, 2009Por que no me acordaba de esta peli!! es bien rarita,, me gustan el manejo de la insinuación, una de esas pelis no muy grandes pero que sin duda marcan.
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Critic Reviews
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
January 1, 2000
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Brought off with such skill and commitment that there isn't any time to snicker at its obviousness! full review
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March 19, 2007so morally whos the worst,a former SS Officer who may or may not have partaken in a few excesses,or a young blackmailer who lampoons the formerly dignified Officer,if I seen him doing that id bash his teeth in
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