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The Emperor's Club (2002)

Film · 2002 · 108 min · PG-13 · Drama

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

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

Starring Kevin Kline, Emile Hirsch, Jesse Eisenberg, Rishi Mehta, Paul Dano, Rob Morrow, Embeth Davidtz, Edward Herrmann

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In cinemas22 November 2002
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First release anywhere22 November 2002

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