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The Emperor's Club

In everyone's life there's that one person who makes all the difference.

Rating 7.1 / 10Release November 22, 2002Runtime 108 min

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.

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