MOVIE · 1998
Apt Pupil
CrimeDramaThriller111 min
In 1984 Southern California, honor student Todd Bowden becomes fixated on an elderly neighbor he believes is Kurt Dussander, a fugitive Nazi war criminal living under an assumed name. Brad Renfro is Todd, whose curiosity turns into blackmail after he forces the old man to recount his past; Ian McKellen's Dussander is anything but helpless. What begins as a private arrangement between a teenager and the man he has exposed steadily warps into a tense contest, with secrecy, manipulation, and violence closing in on both sides.
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