Meanwhile, Todd has told his parents, Richard (BRUCE DAVISON) and Monica (ANN DOWD) that he's simply reading letters to the old man, when in fact he's actually becoming obsessed with the power and horror that occurred nearly four decades earlier. While Dussander is tentative to have this boy dredge up his past, the evil inside him begins to percolate toward the surface once again. Having compared photos and recently attained fingerprints, Todd blackmails the old man into telling him everything about the past lest he turn him in to the authorities.ĭussander reluctantly agrees and the two soon enter an unlikely and dangerous alliance. After some quick detective work, Todd approaches Dussander, who's living under the assumed name of Arthur Denker, with an ultimatum. One day on the way home, he spots an old man (IAN McKELLEN) who, despite the intervening years, looks just like Kurt Dussander, a former Nazi SS officer still wanted for the atrocities he committed back then. After a week of studying the Holocaust and Nazism, Todd has a newfound appetite for more information, especially of things they won't teach in class, and thus heads to the library to gain more insight into what really happened. PLOT: 1n 1984, sixteen-year-old Todd Bowden (BRAD RENFRO) is a typical high school student who excels at both his studies and sports. QUICK TAKE: Drama: An unlikely and often wary relationship forms when a sixteen-year-old high school student discovers a former Nazi SS officer living in his neighborhood and blackmails him into telling about his past.
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