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Titolo originale: Apt Pupil
Regia: Bryan Singer |
Anno: 1998
Origine: France | United States of America |
Generi: Dramma Thriller
Tag: high school | based on novel or book | secret identity | troubled teen | nazism | 1980s | school counselor | nazi war criminal | gay theme |
Cast: Brad Renfro | Ian McKellen | Bruce Davison | Elias Koteas | Joe Morton | Jan Tříska | Michael Byrne | Heather McComb | Ann Dowd | Joshua Jackson | David Schwimmer | Mickey Cottrell | Michael Reid MacKay | James Karen | Marjorie Lovett | David Cooley | Blake Anthony Tibbetts | Katherine Malone | Grace Sinden | Anthony Moore | Kevin Spirtas | Danna Dennis | Michael Artura | Donna Marie Brown | Mark Flythe | Warren Wilson | Jill Harris | Norbert D. Singer | Mildred Singer | Mary Ottman |

Todd Bowen, brillante ragazzo, scopre che il suo vicino di casa è in realtà un ex criminale nazista, celato sotto falso nome. Affascinato dall'ideologia, lo obbliga a raccontargli particolari sempre più shockanti, minacciando di denunciarlo alla polizia nel caso in cui si rifiuti. Il “gioco”, però, gli sfugge di mano, trasformandosi in un vortice di morbosità e insanità.

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Sir Ian McKellen later claimed that Dussander's accent was very difficult to master, since Dussander [...] D
Bryan Singer auditioned a couple hundred young men and chose 14-year-old Brad Renfro, saying of him, [...] D
The guidance counselor is played by David Schwimmer. When Todd and the old man go see the guidance c [...] D
Dennis Mahoney says that sadomasochism, homoeroticism, and homophobia are highlighted in Bryan Singe [...] D
John Ottman served as both film editor and music composer for Apt Pupil. When he edited the film, he [...] D
The protesters outside of the hospital where Dussander is being kept, both the Holocaust justice gro [...] D
Kevin Pollak was originally attached to play Edward French, but was replaced by David Schwimmer. Bry [...] D
The movie ending and the novella ending are drastically different, though Dussander dies in both. Th [...] D
One of the pictures of Dussander during World War II was actually Heinrich Himmler, but with Sir Ian [...] D
Ian McKellen would go on to play Erik Lehnsherr, a.k.a. Magneto, in Bryan Singer's next film X-Men ( [...] D
Whether it was intentional or not is unknown, but the sound of the windshield wipers operating at th [...] D
This movie uses names of teachers from Bryan Singer's alma mater, West Windsor-Plainsboro High Schoo [...] D
Brad Renfro was only fourteen at the time of filming. D
Bryan Singer first read Apt Pupil when he was 19 years old, and when he became a director, he wanted [...] D
Sir Ian McKellen admitted he was surprised to be asked to play 75-year-old Kurt Dussander, since he [...] D
In an interview around the time that this movie was released, Sir Ian McKellen said "I didn't like m [...] D
The movie is based on a novella by Stephen King from a book of short stories called "Different Seaso [...] D
Bruce Davison and Brad Renfro had previously costarred in "The Cure" (1994). D
A 14-year-old extra filed a lawsuit alleging that he was ordered to strip naked for the shower scene [...] D
Body Count: three (two humans and one bird). D
The main death camp in which Dussander is quoted as serving is stated to be "Patin", which was not a [...] D
Screenwriter Brandon Boyce described Dussander as being "a composite of these ghosts of World War II [...] D
Items used as props to hint at character Todd Bowden's disturbed state of mind and fascination with [...] D
Director Bryan Singer and cast members Sir Ian McKellen and Bruce Davison subsequently worked togeth [...] D
At the start of the movie, the voice of the off-screen teacher is writer Christopher McQuarrie, a ch [...] D
Now Playing Podcast reviewed Apt Pupil. This film received three "not recommends". D
Michael Byrne ironically played a prominent Nazi in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" (1989), but [...] D
After Todd Bowden hits the beggar on the head with a shovel, the splash of blood on Todd's forehead [...] D
Editor and composer John Ottman did two cameos in this movie, but both were cut. The first was readi [...] D
The American Humane Society was on-set during the scene where Ian McKellen's character Denker/Dussan [...] D
There had been talk of a movie version in 1984. James Mason agreed to play Kurt, but died from a hea [...] D
When Dussander is arrested in the hospital, the movie displays a newspaper article which reveals tha [...] D
Sir Anthony Hopkins turned down the main role. A few years later he would star in Hearts in Atlantis [...] D
Michael Byrne, who played Holocaust survivor Ben Kramer (the man who identifies Kurt Dussander in th [...] D
Ian McKellen said that one of the things that convinced Bryan Singer to cast him as Dussander, despi [...] D
In The Films of Stephen King, Dennis Mahoney writes that the obsession with Nazism and the Holocaust [...] D
Todd's high school mascot (the Pirates) and school color (green and gold) are the same as Bryan Sing [...] D
Brad Renfro and Bruce Davison appeared in The Cure (1995). D
The cast and crew put on a party for Brad Renfro's 15th birthday during filming of the movie. D
Research for Apt Pupil was provided by Leslie Swift of the US Holocaust Museum (Washington, DC), the [...] D

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At the end, the monitor shows a flat line and there's a solid tone, yet it still shows a bpm of 189 [...] D
FBI Special Agent Dan Richler's badge is the wrong design, the FBI badge is a shield with pointy bit [...] D
After Dussander comes down the steps in the Nazi uniform, he approaches Todd and his hat switches ha [...] D
Some question Dussander's description of carbon monoxide gas being introduced to gas chambers throug [...] D
Mr. Kramer removes a "blood pressure cuff" from his arm to get out of the hospital bed. Blood pressu [...] D
Kurt Dussander, upon receiving his uniform given by Bowden, commented on how he received a "promotio [...] D
Dussander is wearing glasses in the hospital as he falls asleep and Kramer goes and looks him in the [...] D
When Todd gives Danker (Dussander) the uniform, he is wearing a blue sweater over a red shirt. Minut [...] D
The SS uniform that Todd buys for Dussander has the collar insignia of an Obersturmbannführer (eq [...] D
When Mr. Dussander opens the box containing the Nazi costume, he comments that it is a very good rec [...] D
The stripe of the knot on Mr. Danker's tie when he is in French's office, is different when (later t [...] D
When Todd is walking down the hall to give Kurt Dussander the costume, the dolly track is visible on [...] D
Throughout the entire movie, Danker/Dussander's kitchen window is always closed. Except for the exac [...] D
Todd's shoes are different when he's riding toward Kurt Dussander's house from when he actually arri [...] D
When Brad Renfro (Todd Bowden) is bicycling to the home of Ian McKellen (Kurt Dussander), he is wear [...] D
Mr. French shows Todd a newspaper headline, part of which reads "...Camp Commandant Lead Double Life [...] D
A 3-point line is visible on the school's basketball court. The setting of the movie is 1984 and the [...] D
At the dinner scene the man points at a deer head on the wall and says, "that's a white tail buck". [...] D
At the end of the movie as Dussender lays dead in the hospital bed his pupils are constricted when i [...] D

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