This was mentioned on Key & Peele comedy show and wanted to know what this even is. Good movie, never seen or heard before Key & Peele. Both main characters are quite creepy. Will warch again.
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An over-achieving high school student (Brad Renfro), studing the Holocaust, becomes aware of a real-life Nazi war criminal (Ian McKellen) living in his neighbourhood. Blackmailing him into revealing his dark history, or threatening to reveal his true identity, the tables are soon quickly turned as Renfro becomes more and more curious, affecting his mental state, realtionships and schoolwork. This in turn uncovers ghosts for McKellen who is once again seduced by his past...with a new and sinister turn of events. Based on a Stephen King novella, this is a understated, dark little film with strong central performances from the two leads and a great supporting cast.
Superb movie about an ex Nazi war criminal whose past comes back to haunt him when a student becomes overly obsessed with history and uncovers his identity...
Disturbing thriller about a bright student whose WW2 studies lead him to discover that a Nazi war criminal is secretly living in his town. The boy confronts the man and insists on hearing his reminiscences of the holocaust - or he will hand him over to the authorities. The cocky boy is no match for the Nazi and the relationship spirals into something dangerous and deadly. Great, creepy performance from Ian McKellen as the war criminal and Brad Renfro as the obsessive student.
Bryan Singer director of The Usual Suspects delivers another incredible thriller - watch it now or my gran will get you
As a long time King fan, I dont think the director did real justice to this story. Although the two lead actors (Ian McKellen and Brad Renfro) play their respective roles very well, the film is a very watered down version of the book. It seems to want to skirt around the big questions and avoid the dark serindipity which made the original tale so absorbing (presumably not to offend the evermore delicate sensibilities of american audiences). In short, the director and the studio largely wimped out. Moral: If you are going to make a film about difficult subject matter, try to have the courage to be true to the tale.
Being anadaptation from a Stephen King novella you know the territory you are in but little can prepare you for this oh so creepy exploration into deviance and the corruption of personalities, The teo lead performances should have been given more credit than they received. McKellen was never creepier
EXCELLENT i loved the way the boy tryed to get the old man to do what he asked black mailing him all the way ho but how the tables turn.
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