Rent The Apprentice (2024)
3.5 of 5 from 97 ratings
1h 58min
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- Synopsis:
- From director Ali Abbasi (Holy Spider) and writer Gabriel Sherman (The Loudest Voice in the Room) comes the story of a young Donald Trump (Sebastian Stan), eager to make his name as a hungry second son of a wealthy family in 1970s New York. He comes under the spell of Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong), the cutthroat attorney who would help create the Donald Trump we know today. Cohn sees in Trump the perfect protege: someone with raw ambition, a hunger for success, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to win.
- Actors:
- Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong, Martin Donovan, Maria Bakalova, Catherine McNally, Charlie Carrick, Ben Sullivan, Mark Rendall, Joe Pingue, Ron Lea, Edie Inksetter, Matt Baram, Moni Ogunsuyi, Brad Austin, Stuart Hughes, Jim Monaco, Clare Coulter, Hume Baugh, Tammy Boundy, Jaclyn Vogl
- Directors:
- Ali Abbasi
- Producers:
- Ali Abbasi, Amy Baer, Daniel Bekerman, Julianne Forde, Jacob Jarek, Louis Tisné, Ruth Treacy
- Writers:
- Gabriel Sherman
- Aka:
- The Apprentice: The Donald Trump Story
- Studio:
- StudioCanal
- Genres:
- Drama
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 06/01/2025
- Run Time:
- 122 minutes
- Languages:
- English Audio Description, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.50:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
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Reviews (1) of The Apprentice
Fascinating & Timely Film about Donald Trump from early 1970s to late 80s - The Apprentice review by PV
The director of this did BORDER - a brilliant film 5 stars - and the woeful computer game TV series/movie THE LAST OF US. So I did not know what to expect.
The screenwriter has form writing about Murdoch and big media players like Fox News, so that is the same highpowered media/money world.
I was at times amazed they got away with some scenes - especially with the litigious Trump team. BUT maybe such scenes are already in the public domain in biographies and memoirs etc, maybe from the ex wife Ivana?
The actors are great - very hard to portray such a famous face well as viewers will always compare BUT I believed this portrayal of the young Trump, in his twenties mostly, learning from the odious Roy Cohn (lawyer who worked when young with McCarthy in the 1950s red menace purges). The three rules here and how much the young learned from Cohn seem relevant and timely to today and the dealmaker Trump's MO. Jeremy Strong as Cohn is superb, the star of this film.
What I hated was the very weird supposedly Scottish accent of Trump's mum. And some phrases that were not around 50 years ago (think out of the box; he's spicy etc).
But all in all this Canadian-Irish coproduction is a decent film on Trump's formative years in business and made me want to know more about his family, esp his older brother (an alcoholic who ended up as a handyman working for his younger brother in their properties).
This is a solid, entertaining, watchable, timely film about the new (again) president of the USA.
4 stars.
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