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The Apprentice
Directed by Ali Abbasi
A young Donald Trump, eager to make his name as a hungry scion of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn, 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. From TMDB
242 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, TMDB reviews, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
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The Apprentice is a 2024 drama film, directed by Ali Abbasi, starring Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong and Martin Donovan.
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- posts span May 21, 2024 to Nov 5, 2026
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60 of 242 · most liked firstFinally getting around to watching The Apprentice (the movie) and fifteen minutes in it’s already stressing me out. Switching back to Love is Blind Habibi
negative · AI labelView post →Reminder that Amazon... -Helps fuel ICE's deportation machine -Donated $1M to Trump's inauguration -Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump -Shelled out $75M for the Melania movie And now wants to reboot The Apprentice — with Don Jr as host. Still shopping on Amazon?
neutral · AI labelView post →Reminder that Amazon... -Helps fuel ICE's deportation machine -Donated $1M to Trump's inauguration -Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump -Shelled out $75M for the Melania movie -Donated to Trump's WH ballroom -And wants to reboot The Apprentice with Don Jr as host
neutral · AI labelView post →Sebastian Stan says he was offered to take part in Variety’s Actors on Actors for ‘THE APPRENTICE’ but couldn’t as no publicist wanted their client to be paired with him to talk about the film. (via: @MaggieMinLA)
neutral · AI labelView post →Amazon should run a "FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY" disclaimer on the fraudulent show "The Apprentice." The "reality" show palms off an oft-bankrupt businessman as highly successful. They even had to film the office scenes on a set. The real ones looked too cheap. www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
neutral · AI labelView post →This... does not feel like an accident. Ali Abbasi's Trump biopic "The Apprentice" won best movie at the Canadian Screen Awards in Toronto last night. "Ali, I told you, you have to come to Canada if you want to find some guts in this industry." www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie ‘The Apprentice’ that Donald Trump doesn’t want you to see is now streaming on Prime, Tubi, Roku, Plex, and Pluto TV.
neutral · AI labelView post →BREAKING: Amazon considering a reboot of "The Apprentice" with Donald Trump Jr. as the new host… Because the Melania movie was so successful. 😂
neutral · AI labelView post →BBC cut 2 or the 3 jokes about Donald Trump by David Tennant at the BAFTAs First is in this clip, "A film about incredible architecture.. In fact it's the boldest architecture in film this year apart from Donald Trump's hair in The Apprentice"
neutral · AI labelView post →GUY WHO FELL INTO A COMA IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE SEASON ONE FINALE OF THE APPRENTICE IN 2004 SUDDENLY WAKING UP IN 2025: Holy fucking shit. They made a fucking SpongeBob SquarePants movie?
neutral · AI labelView post →I finally watched The Apprentice (the movie) and I wasn’t alive for all that but it’s mind-boggling that some of the people who were have continued to believe that Trump has ever been “good” at “business”
negative · AI labelView post →Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson posts a clip from the 2024 movie The Apprentice explaining Trump’s mentality.
neutral · AI labelView post →@louiseblackwick.bsky.social " and who plays Trump (in the biographical film The Apprentice), the actor known for the role of Bucky Barnes in the series Captain America (S Stan). I heard that he is interested in your series "Vivian Amberville"... he was even spotted on a beach reading your novel.
neutral · AI labelView post →Can all journos please go watch The Apprentice (the movie) for a quick crash course/reminder of Trump’s rules for business that he learned from Roy Cohn? So that maybe the Beltway media won’t get rolled by this shit every single fucking time? HINT: in general, if he declares victory, he’s lying.
neutral · AI labelView post →More people should watch this great film The Apprentice (2024) If for no other reason it was difficult to get distribution because subject matter and Trump trying to stop it
positive · AI labelView post →Tonight's movie at The Auditorium: The Barber and The Apprentice. 5 phalluses out of 5. #theorgasmusacademy
neutral · AI labelView post →The Apprentice was a very good film and Jeremy Strong was very good in it
positive · AI labelView post →This The Apprentice movie is wild. I am very familiar with Trumps history. But seeing it played out in a film actually drives it home even more. These people are monsters. The enemies of the working class.
negative · AI labelView post →A review of The Apprentice, a film about the early life of Donald J Trump which is in cinemas now. A must-see for those interested in the USA | @charliemac2204.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm on a plane and I just put on The Apprentice film. It says it's produced by the Danish Film Institute. Trumps obsession with Greenland just made a little bit more sense to me.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Apprentice movie has some extraordinary acting (Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn, jesus christ). Still digesting the movie overall. Definitely not a relaxing "get away from your worries" piece of escapist entertainment in this moment.
neutral · AI labelView post →“The Apprentice,” a biopic about the rise of a young Donald Trump that stars Sebastian Stan, is scheduled to hit theaters on Oct. 11, ahead of the presidential election.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Trump “origin story” movie - The Apprentice - is getting a release before the election. It stars Sebastian Stan as Trump and Succession’s Jeremy Strong as mobster lawyer Roy Cohn. The film shows how the Trump toxicity was shaped by his relationship with Cohn.
neutral · AI labelView post →For @thenation.com, I reviewed The Apprentice, which I thought was very good but which no one wants to watch, because no one wants to think about Trump any more than they have to.
positive · AI labelView post →I think it is insane the way people are tiptoeing around THE APPRENTICE. It's a great movie, with an amazing Sebastian Stan performance, and the last thing it does is excuse or humanize its subject. Terrific filmmaking, and discussing the film as a film should not be difficult, folks.
positive · AI labelView post →Holy shit. I just read that Sebastian Stan won’t be doing the Variety Actors on Actors awards season panel because other actors’ publicists wouldn’t let their clients talk to Sebastian about playing Donald Trump in THE APPRENTICE movie. This is outrageous!
neutral · AI labelView post →Much like I don't feel compelled to mute him now and can gleefully revel in his pathetic dejected loser vibe, I think I can now watch The Apprentice movie. Because I finally feel secure that history will view him as the corrupt moronic farce that he always has been.
positive · AI labelView post →The Apprentice - the Trump “origin story” that he tried to ban - gets a big gala premiere at the London Film Festival on October 15.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched 'The Apprentice' film on the plane. Incredibly well-written and directed. Sebastian Stan's Trump is so good, partially because he never plays it too big. Jeremy Strong gave an Oscar-winning performance, truly. It's a shame the movie got buried. This has been my Letterboxd audition.
positive · AI labelView post →Have you watched the Trump movie “The Apprentice”? Even Roy Cohen allegedly called Trump evil…Roy Cohen!!!
neutral · AI labelView post →“It’s kind of jaw-dropping how afraid this ‘business of mavericks’ is when they get a great film like that," the outspoken actor said of "The Apprentice."
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s a tough watch right now but The Apprentice is a very good movie. The making of a monster and the fall of its creator. The song choices are confusingly anachronistic but for once I’ll let it go.
positive · AI labelView post →I watched The Apprentice (film) this weekend and you know what would stop the Cohn/Trump “Ruthless Rules” from being effective: - some accountability mechanisms and - a world where being gay wasn’t something people would use against you as blackmail that’s all, they’re actually very easy to beat
neutral · AI labelView post →#Film2024 Favourite film: The Teacher Surprisingly good: Kneecap Most underrated: The Apprentice Most overrated: Gladiator II Most mindless fun: Trap
neutral · AI labelView post →I reviewed The Apprentice, which is very good so long as you can stomach the idea of watching it. www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
positive · AI labelView post →On this week’s episode of Bulwark Goes to Hollywood, @sonnybunch.bsky.social talks to Andrew Ortenberg of Briarcliff Entertainment about distributing tricky movies like The Apprentice and Magazine Dreams and the economics of indie film distribution in general:
neutral · AI labelView post →me texting morgan 20 mins before Sebastian Stan did indeed get an Oscar nom for The Apprentice:
neutral · AI labelView post →Baghaei, spokesperson for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, released a clip from the 2024 film The Apprentice, which is based on the life of US President Donald Trump.
neutral · AI labelView post →One can only imagine what the dictator has on these people. In the movie, The Apprentice, there was a secret room where video surveillance was recorded & stored. It was just a quick segment, but you know every trump hotel has it.
neutral · AI labelView post →Why does he even have a star? A cameo in a Home Alone movie and the Apprentice gets you one? He’s talentless and can barely read. Get rid of the star.
neutral · AI labelView post →Now that Trump is president again The Apprentice (the movie not the reality show) deserves some canonization. It was a great crime movie.
positive · AI labelView post →To my surprise and relief, I thought The Apprentice was quite an enjoyable indie film. I had initially been concerned that Sebastian Stan was too handsome to play Donald Trump, but he really finds the ugly. Jeremy Strong was also very good as (Kendall) Roy Cohn.
positive · AI labelView post →The Apprentice is the best movie I've seen this year. Bom video 👍 hope this dipshit doesn't become American Fuhrer again because he didn't go to therapy at any point in the movie
positive · AI labelView post →Ivana was raped by him too during their divorce proceedings. She recommended a hair doctor that made him feel ouchie So he ripped her hair out of her scalp and raped her Asked her sneeringly the next morning, “does it hurt?” The film they accidentally helped fund, The Apprentice, has a scene.
neutral · AI labelView post →Two things I appreciated about the film “The Apprentice” is that they showed Trump popping pills and they showed him being a rapist
neutral · AI labelView post →If you believe some of the accounts that have been written, as well as the film THE APPRENTICE, Roy Cohn was Trump’s teacher and by the end of Cohn’s life, he was astonished at how cold-hearted Trump was to him. “Donald pisses ice water” he was quoted as saying before he died.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched that movie "The Apprentice" tonight fantastic performances by Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn & Sebastian Stan as Trump. (Two loathsome human beings) I think the fact we feel so sorry for Roy Cohn by the end of the film speaks volumes about Trump's putrid nature RS
positive · AI labelView post →“The only way we’re going to get through what’s coming is extreme solidarity... Shame on these actors and publicists.” – @ghostpanther.bsky.social on Hollywood’s fear of Trump’s wrath related to the new film The Apprentice. We talked with the film’s screenwriter– www.levernews.com/the-new-movi...
neutral · AI labelView post →This is really about "The Apprentice" movie, filmed mostly in Canada, coming out in the US this month. He can't extort the filmmakers in Canada like he could if it were made here.
neutral · AI labelView post →Trump’s Gaza takeover sends message to China and Russia: Go ahead and take Taiwan and eastern Europe. Because strong nations just do whatever the fuck they want. As Trump says in my film The Apprentice: “We’re all animals, Tony. That’s the truth of it.”
neutral · AI labelView post →Back in October, SFGATE columnist @drewmagary.bsky.social wrote that the Trump biopic "The Apprentice" is Oscar-worthy. Today, it received two #Oscars nominations. www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
neutral · AI labelView post →Exclusive: 'The Apprentice' Writer Talks New Film and Trump’s Failed Attempts to Block It
neutral · AI labelView post →Sebastian Stan by Chris Reist at the Zurich Film Festival for ‘THE APPRENTICE’. 📷
neutral · AI labelView post →Hey this isn't a prank--I joined @yourkickstartersucks.com to talk about a monster for Farrarch from a movie called The Apprentice and um..he's a bit of a different kind of strangely colored beast, residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue! (Trump
neutral · AI labelView post →The Apprentice (the film) is critical viewing. Trump’s entire ethos is laid bare—and his shocking treatment of his mentor at the finale stays with you. Hell, it all stays with you.
positive · AI labelView post →The Apprentice movie failed to gain US distribution because the show it's based on has to do entirely with the guy building up an American 4th Reich
neutral · AI labelView post →A Face In The Crowd and The Apprentice were good movie choices this week, for obvious reasons. Anyone have other suggestions along this line?
positive · AI labelView post →This is why I think everyone should watch the movie The Apprentice, which was more sympathetic to Trump than I expected but really gets to how he learned from Cohn. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/o...
positive · AI labelView post →The Apprentice (2024) dir. Ali Abbasi 🎬 This movie reveals stinking corruption and conniving skullduggery of the highest order. We see it everyday on TV anyway, why watch a movie about it? Can films like this teach us something new about their subject? #filmsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BaJ...
neutral · AI labelView post →Omg yes! Have you seen the movie The Apprentice? It is implied in it that Roy Cohn and Trump had a thing…this would explain so much….
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