The Emperor's Club
2002 · TMDB 7.1
Directed by Michael Hoffman
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.
Why it matters
Kevin Kline plays a classics teacher at a prestigious boys' school whose attempts to instil virtue in a charismatic but dishonest student lead to a decades-long reckoning. The film is a meditation on the limits of teaching and the persistence of character.
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Released
- 2002-11-22
- Studio
- Universal Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- TMDB score
- 7.1
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