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Apt Pupil

DVD More Info Close Caption: Yes Region Code: 1 UPC: 014381684421 Languages: English Dolby Digital Stereo (Primary)	In stock and ready to ship	$9.99
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Synopsis

Ian McKellen and Brad Renfro star in a dark drama about a sixteen–year–old honor student who recognizes an old man living in his hometown as a hunted Nazi. Compelled to reveal the secrets of his death camp past to earn the boy's silence, the German fugitive derives a sinister scheme to implicate the teenager in a dangerous psychological game.

Review

The sophomore film from The Usual Suspects director Bryan Singer, Apt Pupil is a rather homoerotic adaptation of the well–crafted Stephen King novella. An inscrutable (and adorable) Brad Renfro plays a Holocaust–obsessed high schooler who discovers his elderly German neighbor (Ian McKellen) is actually a Nazi war criminal. The youth's fascination with the past drives him to blackmail the old man to regale him with tales of suffering and death from his concentration camp days. The two unlikely companions form an unusual bond which includes one very disturbing gay sequence. McKellen picks up a gay homeless man with the implied promise of sex and a meal. What he gets is a rather harsh death—completed by a viscious Renfro. McKellenas the old Nazi; he isn't as frightening as he should be, but he creates a detailed, compelling portrait of dormant evil reawakened.

Product Format Information

DVD : $9.99

Availability: In stock and ready to ship
Close Caption: Yes
Region Code: 1
UPC: 014381684421

Studio : Image

Languages: English Dolby Digital Stereo (Primary)
Aspect Ratio: Widescreen, 1.85
Extras: Trailers
Features:
Featurette: The Making of Apt Pupil
Original theatrical trailer

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Blu-ray : $15.99

Availability: In stock and ready to ship
Close Caption: No
Region Code: 1
UPC: 014381711356

Studio : Image

Languages: English DTS-HD 5.1 (Primary) , English Subtitles , Spanish Subtitles
Aspect Ratio: Widescreen, 2.35
Features:
Featurette: The Making of Apt Pupil