The Emperor's Club
- Release Date: November 22, 2002
- Genre: Drama
- Director: Michael Hoffman
- Producer(s): Andrew S. Karsch, Marc Abraham
- Writer(s): Neil Tolkin
- Studio: Universal Pictures
- Length: 1h 49m
- Official Site: www.theemperorsclub.com
Synopsis
William Hundert (Kline) is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new student, Sedgewick Bell (Hirsch), 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.Based on the short story The Palace Thief by Ethan Canin.