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The Emperor's Club(2002)
Status: Released
Date: 2002-11-22
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388 Votes
Time: 1h 48m
In everyone's life there's that one person who makes all the difference.
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.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
Revenue: $16,300,000.00
ProductionCompanies: 
Movie: The Emperor's Club
Top 10 Billed Cast
Kevin Kline
William Hundert
Emile Hirsch
Sedgewick Bell
Embeth Davidtz
Elizabeth
Purva Bedi
Anna Mehta
Rob Morrow
James Ellerby
Edward Herrmann
Headmaster Woodbridge
Helen Carey
Miss Johnston
Jesse Eisenberg
Louis Masoudi
Paul Dano
Martin Blythe
Katherine O'Sullivan
The Nun
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