Apprentice to Murder

Name: Apprentice to Murder
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Released: 1988-02-26
Rating: 29
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Chad Lowe, Mia Sara, Knut Husebo, Rutanya Alda

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PG-13

Released Feb 26, 1988

1h 32m

Mystery & Thriller

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A teenager (Chad Lowe) is torn between his lover (Mia Sara) and a doctor (Donald Sutherland) of "powwow medicine" in 1920s Pennsylvania.

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There's never a sense of the story really taking flight.

Rated: 6/10

Aug 7, 2018

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william k

Strange, quite uneven, but interesting horror drama, based on a true story, never quite knows what it wants to tell not unlike its apprentice's inability to perceive reality; Donald Sutherland is always worth the watch.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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The cover jacket is really awful and not at all representative of this rather good supernatural thriller, based in a sleepy Dutch town (Pennsylvania,1928). The story concerns an eccentric, pow-wow preacher, who plots to murder an evil hermit with the aid of his young apprentice. The whole episode is quite enthralling and actually based on a true story but if you need any further excuse to watch this, then it also stars the lovely Mia Sara and an animated performance by Donald Sutherland.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/14/23

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Ralph L. Thomas

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Donald Sutherland

John Reese

Chad Lowe

Billy Kelly

Mia Sara

Alice Spangler

Knut Husebo

Lars Hoeglin

Rutanya Alda

Elma Kelly

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A teenager (Chad Lowe) is torn between his lover (Mia Sara) and a doctor (Donald Sutherland) of "powwow medicine" in 1920s Pennsylvania.

Director: Ralph L. Thomas
Producer: Howard K. Grossman
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 26, 1988, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): May 14, 2019
Box Office (Gross USA): $140.3K
Runtime: 1h 32m

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