Movie
The Emperor's Club
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2002-11-22
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Universal Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Kevin Kline as William Hundert
- Emile Hirsch as Sedgewick Bell
- Jesse Eisenberg as Louis Masoudi
- Rishi Mehta as Deepak Mehta
- Paul Dano as Martin Blythe
- Rob Morrow as James Ellerby
- Embeth Davidtz as Elizabeth
- Edward Herrmann as Headmaster Woodbridge
- Helen Carey as Miss Johnston
- Molly Regan as Miss Peters
- Purva Bedi as Anna Mehta
- Deirdre Lorenz as Dr. Kelly Ryan
Crew
- Michael Hoffman - Director
- Neil Tolkin - Screenplay
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