Apt Pupil
1998 film by Bryan Singer · Released October 23, 1998
Apt Pupil is a 1998 American thriller film directed by Bryan Singer and starring Ian McKellen and Brad Renfro. It is based on the 1982 novella Apt Pupil by Stephen King. In the 1980s in southern California, high school student Todd Bowden (Renfro) discovers fugitive Nazi war criminal Kurt Dussander (McKellen) living in his neighborhood under the pseudonym Arthur Denker. Bowden, obsessed with Nazism and acts of the Holocaust, persuades Dussander to share his stories, and their relationship stirs malice in each of them.
Cast ages when filming began (1987)
- Brad Renfro: 4–5
- Ian McKellen: 47–48
- Joshua Jackson: 8–9
- Bruce Davison: 40–41
- David Schwimmer: 20–21
- Elias Koteas: 25–26
- Ann Dowd: 30–31
- Heather McComb: 9–10
- James Karen: 63–64
- Joe Morton: 39–40
- Michael Byrne: 47–48
- Jan Tříska: 50–51