The Emperor's Club

The Emperor's Club

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

PG-13 2002 · 108 min · ★ 7.1 · Drama

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 · Written by Neil Tolkin

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