The Emperor's Club

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.

Starring:  Kevin Kline, Rob Morrow

Director:  Michael Hoffman

Writer:  
Ethan Canin (short story The Palace Thief)
Neil Tolkin (screenplay)

Released:  2002 (theater)

Rating:   for some sexual content.

Country:  USA

Language:  English

AKA: Palace Thief, The (2002) (USA: working title)