The Emperor's Club
2002 · Movie · PG-13 · 108 min · ★ 7.1 · 50% critics
A principled Classics teacher at an elite boys’ boarding school is thrown off balance by a brilliant but defiant new student. Their clash turns into an intense mentor-student bond that tests the teacher’s ideals, forcing him to confront hard questions about character, influence, and the lasting weight of choices over time.
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Details
- Years
- 2002
- Release date
- 2002-11-22
- Language
- English
- Rated
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Critic score
- 50/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.1/10 (402 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you like reflective school dramas about mentorship, integrity, and long-term consequences, with a more measured tone than big crowd-pleasers; Not for you if you dislike moral lessons or slow, talky stories like The Secret Life of Bees.
Pros: thoughtful ethics questions; strong teacher-student tension; reflective, mature tone | Cons: heavy-handed moralizing; familiar school-drama beats; uneven character focus
Themes
- cheating
- private school
- teacher
- ethics
Cast & crew
Kevin Kline
as William Hundert
Emile Hirsch
as Sedgewick Bell
Jesse Eisenberg
as Louis Masoudi
- RM
Rishi Mehta
as Deepak Mehta
Paul Dano
as Martin Blythe
Rob Morrow
as James Ellerby
Embeth Davidtz
as Elizabeth
Edward Herrmann
as Headmaster Woodbridge
Helen Carey
as Miss Johnston
- MR
Molly Regan
as Miss Peters
Directed by Michael Hoffman