The Apprentice

“Ribald… energetic… gleefully vulgar… queasily funny if finally very bleak portrait.” – Manohla Dargis, NY Times.

“An entertaining portrait of a three-dimensional human being who so emulates his mentor that he finally acquires all of his most disturbing traits. It’s a smart, but not smart-alecky, dramatization of his evolution.” – Leonard Maltin.

“Garbage” – Trump campaign spokesperson.

A young Donald Trump (Sebastian Stan), eager to make his name as a hungry scion of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, 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 protégé—someone with raw ambition, a hunger for success, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to win.

Rated R for sexual content, some graphic nudity, language, sexual assault, and drug use.

Directed by Ali Abbasi (HOLY SPIDER). Written by Gabriel Sherman. Staring Sebastian Stan (A DIFFERENT MAN) as The Donald, Jeremy Strong as his Roy Cohn, Maria Bakalova, Charlie Carrick, Catherine McNally, and Martin Donovan (!) as Fred Sr.

THE APPRENTICE stars and the director Ali Abbasi say their film is a “humanistic” treatment of the former president and his mentor, Roy Cohn. – NY Times / Kyle Buchanan interview.

Open Caption Screening on 11/4 & 11/12!