The Emperor's Club

Nov 22, 2002

1h 48m

★ 7.1

In everyone's life there's that one person who makes all the difference.

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Universal Pictures

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Cast

William Hundert

Kevin Kline

Sedgewick Bell

Emile Hirsch

Louis Masoudi

Jesse Eisenberg

Deepak Mehta

Rishi Mehta

Martin Blythe

Paul Dano

James Ellerby

Rob Morrow

Elizabeth

Embeth Davidtz

Headmaster Woodbridge

Edward Herrmann

Miss Johnston

Helen Carey

Miss Peters

Molly Regan

Miss Johnston

Helen Carey

Anna Mehta

Purva Bedi

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