---
title: 'Apt Pupil (1998)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Bryan Singer'
released: '1998-10-23'
runtime_minutes: 107
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Horror'
  - 'Thriller'
countries:
  - 'France'
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/apt-pupil-1998'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118636/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Apt Pupil (1998)

1998 · 107 min · Drama, Horror, Thriller · France, United States


## Synopsis

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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Bryan Singer](https://cinepixo.com/people/bryan-singer)
- **Producer:** [Bryan Singer](https://cinepixo.com/people/bryan-singer), [Don Murphy](https://cinepixo.com/people/don-murphy), [Jane Hamsher](https://cinepixo.com/people/jane-hamsher)
- **Screenplay:** [Brandon Boyce](https://cinepixo.com/people/brandon-boyce)
- **Original Music Composer:** [John Ottman](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-ottman)
- **Editor:** [John Ottman](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-ottman)
- **Director of Photography:** [Newton Thomas Sigel](https://cinepixo.com/people/newton-thomas-sigel)

## Cast

- [Joe Morton](https://cinepixo.com/people/joe-morton)
- [Marjorie Lovett](https://cinepixo.com/people/marjorie-lovett)
- [Michael Reid McKay](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-reid-mckay)
- [Michael Byrne](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-byrne)
- [Richard Dunn](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-dunn)
- [Joshua Jackson](https://cinepixo.com/people/joshua-jackson)
- [David Schwimmer](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-schwimmer)
- [Bruce Davison](https://cinepixo.com/people/bruce-davison)
- [Heather McComb](https://cinepixo.com/people/heather-mccomb)
- [Ian McKellen](https://cinepixo.com/people/ian-mckellen)
- [Ann Dowd](https://cinepixo.com/people/ann-dowd)
- [Elias Koteas](https://cinepixo.com/people/elias-koteas)
- [Kevin Spirtas](https://cinepixo.com/people/kevin-spirtas)
- [Jan Tříska](https://cinepixo.com/people/jan-triska)
- [Brad Renfro](https://cinepixo.com/people/brad-renfro)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/apt-pupil-1998
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