The Emperor's Club

Movie · 1h 48m

Starring Kevin Kline, Emile Hirsch, Jesse Eisenberg, Rishi Mehta

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.