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The highly unusual young man uses his power to turn his pet Nazi in to the authorities as leverage to compel Dussander to tell gruesomely detailed war stories about such morbid logistics as how long it takes to gas a human, what happens to burning corpses and the recipe for turning people into soap. What motivates Todd is not a desire to expose Dussander, but to learn from him. The difficult initial hook is not the only element that is hard to swallow. I suppose the plot-taken from a Stephen King novella-is no more far-fetched than any of King's other stories about bogymen, undead pets and demonic automobiles. Not only that, but the implausibly ingenious Todd ascertains once and for all that mild-mannered German recluse Arthur Denker is the heinous Kurt Dussander by comparing the codger's fingerprints-lifted off his mailbox-to a dossier that the teen sleuth has conveniently downloaded from the Internet.īut never mind all that. (Naturally, it has a surprisingly comprehensive file on obscure perpetrators of World War II atrocities).

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Todd Bowden, a preternaturally observant adolescent, accomplishes what professional Nazi-hunters on three continents have not been able to do by catching the chance resemblance between a now craggy, gray and bespectacled old man on a bus to a blurry, 40-year-old photo that the boy has found in his small-town library. Let's start with the dubious premise: A high school senior (Brad Renfro) stumbles upon a former Nazi war criminal (McKellen) living under an assumed name in Anytown, USA.

The ever-watchable Sir Ian McKellen may be the best thing about 'Apt Pupil,' but the knight's heroics are still not enough to rescue this drama in distress. Ian McKellen and Brad Renfro star in 'Apt Pupil.'įor profanity, nudity, sexual suggestiveness, drug use, stabbing and cruelty to animalse

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