Film depicts Donald Trump and Roy Cohn in the '70s and '80s. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Stan and Strong’s astonishing performances also deepen and develop over the course of the film.

No movie on the fall calendar has stoked as much pre-release controversy as “The Apprentice,” an R-rated dramatization of the early years of Donald Trump that hits theaters on Friday, 25 days before the presidential election.

How do you take on the most famous person in the world? Somebody that people feel so strongly about, and everyone has an impression of?” Stan says. However, after speaking with filmmaker Ali Abbasi, “I was reassured there was something underneath all the noise that was important to explore.