You can’t change the ending! By doing just that, they missed the entire point of the story. But, that was hardly the worst thing about this movie–it was also dreadfully boring. Apt Pupil has always been one of my favorite Stephen King short stories. Coming from the same collection as The Body (aka Stand by Me) and Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption (aka The Shawshank Redemption), I expected a little more from this adaptation.