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Apprentice to Murder

  • 19881988
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 1h 37m
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4.9/10
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Mia Sara, Donald Sutherland, and Chad Lowe in Apprentice to Murder (1988)
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The small beautiful Pennsylvania Dutch community is rocked by a series of bizaare events which lead to a web of deception, violence and murder. Apprentice to murder is a story of Infatuation... Read allThe small beautiful Pennsylvania Dutch community is rocked by a series of bizaare events which lead to a web of deception, violence and murder. Apprentice to murder is a story of Infatuation with love, dreams and out-of-world temptations.The small beautiful Pennsylvania Dutch community is rocked by a series of bizaare events which lead to a web of deception, violence and murder. Apprentice to murder is a story of Infatuation with love, dreams and out-of-world temptations.
IMDb RATING
4.9/10
678
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    • Ralph L. Thomas
    • Wesley Moore
    • Allan Scott
  • Stars
    • Donald Sutherland
    • Chad Lowe
    • Mia Sara
    • Ralph L. Thomas
    • Wesley Moore
    • Allan Scott
  • Stars
    • Donald Sutherland
    • Chad Lowe
    • Mia Sara
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    • 11User reviews
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    Donald Sutherland
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    • John Reese
    Chad Lowe
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    • Billy Kelly
    Mia Sara
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    • Alice Spangler
    Knut Husebø
    • Lars Hoeglin
    Rutanya Alda
    Rutanya Alda
    • Elma Kelly
    Eddie Jones
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    • Tom Kelly
    Mark Burton
    • Clay Myers
    Adrian Sparks
    • Irwin Myers
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    Minnie Gentry
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    Mert Hatfield
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    Ed Wiley
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      • Wesley Moore
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      Released on star maker vhs in Canada who did several direct to video movies in Canada
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    10/10
    Almost a Folk Magic Docu-Drama
    I love this movie and have recommended it to my students in folk-magic because it is closely based on a true story of murder, mysticism, and (possible) madness concerning a Pennsylvania Dutch Pow Wow doctor in the mid-1920s. Donald Sutherland is superb as John Reese, the highly eccentric conjure and herbalist. Chad Lowe is quite good as his young apprentice. The location shots, filmed in Norway, are spectacular -- not Pennsylvania Dutch country, exactly, but a wonderful rural landscape, with great old 19th century buildings. There is also a very good look at contemporaneous hoodoo practices, as the Pow Wow doctor seeks an outside consultation to cure his ills. If you're a prop and set decoration fan and knowledgeable about magic, look for the couple of Pennsylvania Dutch hex signs (inexplicably called "hexagrams" -- the movie's one false step) that contain Norse bind-runes thrown in on them -- obviously that was the Norwegian prop-maker's little in-joke. This is a great little underrated classic, and the perfect vehicle for Donald Sutherland.
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      • 1989 (Norway)
      • Canada
      • United States
      • Norway
      • English
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      • Bergen, Hordaland, Norway
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      • New World Pictures
      • Hot International A/S
      • K/S LLF Productions
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