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Apt Pupil
1998
· Movie
· 107 min
C
MEANRANK
61/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3879
- IMDb #2982
- Rotten Tomatoes #3434
- Metacritic #3102
- Letterboxd #3395
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3623
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3641
- Metacritic Critics #3147
- Metacritic Audience #2937
- Criticker #2017
- Kinopoisk #2430
- AlloCiné #2715
- Trakt #3637
Every rating
46–70
out of 100
A high school student discovers that an elderly man living in his neighborhood is a fugitive Nazi war criminal. Instead of turning him in, the boy becomes obsessed with history's horrors and strikes a deal: he will keep the man's secret in exchange for firsthand accounts of the atrocities committed in the concentration camps. This dark bargain awakens a disturbing cruelty in both of them.
Details
- Director
- Bryan Singer
- Writer
- Brandon Boyce
- Based on
- Apt Pupil by Stephen King
- Released
- 23 October 1998
- Country
- France, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $14.0M
- Box office
- $8.9M
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