The Emperor's Club (2002) movie poster

The Emperor's Club (2002)

"In everyone's life there's that one person who makes all the difference."
ThumbScore
👍 74%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 50%
Drama

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Director
Runtime
1h 48m
Country
United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
7.1/10 (419 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
50%
Metacritic
49

Cast

Kevin Kline as William Hundert · 70% avg
Emile Hirsch as Sedgewick Bell · 70% avg
Jesse Eisenberg as Louis Masoudi · 70% avg
Rishi Mehta as Deepak Mehta
Paul Dano as Martin Blythe · 71% avg
Rob Morrow as James Ellerby · 71% avg
Embeth Davidtz as Elizabeth · 75% avg
Edward Herrmann as Headmaster Woodbridge · 70% avg

Is The Emperor's Club good?

Most people think so. 74% audience score, estimated from 419 TMDB ratings. Critics scored it lower at 50%, but audiences disagreed.

Overview

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. Wikipedia ↗

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