The Emperor's Club poster
Director Michael Hoffman
Screenplay Neil Tolkin
Writer Ethan Canin

The Emperor's Club

Drama2002

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

Release Date: 2002-11-22

Duration: 108 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Embeth Davidtz
    Elizabeth
  • Paul Dano
    Martin Blythe
  • Emile Hirsch
    Sedgewick Bell
  • Patrick Dempsey
    Older Louis Masoudi
  • Jesse Eisenberg
    Louis Masoudi
  • Kevin Kline
    William Hundert
  • Edward Herrmann
    Headmaster Woodbridge
  • Harris Yulin
    Senator Bell
  • Rob Morrow
    James Ellerby
  • Steven Culp
    Older Martin Blythe