The Emperor's Club

1h 48m · 2002 · Directed by Michael Hoffman · 3.2 / 5 on Letterboxd

The Emperor's Club (2002) runs 1h 48m, directed by Michael Hoffman. It is one of 3,647 films in the 100 Minute Movies catalog — every one rated 3.0 or higher by Letterboxd members and short enough to finish in an evening.

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.

Genres: Drama

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