The Emperor's Club

2002

Directed by

Michael Hoffman, Michael Hoffman

Starring

Kevin Kline, Emile Hirsch, Jesse Eisenberg

Runtime

1h 48m

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.