The Emperor's Club
2002, Film, 109 min, Drama, English, United States, MoviePedia score 69
In everyone's life there's that one person who makes all the difference.
William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new student, Sedgewick Bell, walks into his classroom. What begins as a fierce battle of wills gives way to a close student-teacher relationship, but results in a life lesson for Hundert that will still haunt him a quarter of a century later.
Directed by Michael Hoffman
Cast
- Kevin Kline as William Hundert
- Emile Hirsch as Sedgewick Bell
- Joel Gretsch as Older Sedgewick Bell
- Embeth Davidtz as Elizabeth
- Rob Morrow as James Ellerby
- Edward Herrmann as Headmaster Woodbridge
- Harris Yulin as Senator Bell
- Paul Dano as Martin Blythe
- Rishi Mehta as Deepak Mehta
- Jesse Eisenberg as Louis Masoudi
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