The Emperor's Club (2002) on Netflix
At Saint Benedict's, a boys' boarding school, William Hundert teaches classics and tries to instill honor. Midterm brings Sedgewick Bell, a senator's son who disrupts class and breaks the rules.
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Plot summary
In the early 1970s, William Hundert teaches classics at Saint Benedict's, a school for the sons of wealthy families. He wants his students to value honor and wisdom, and has a plaque above his door read aloud at the start of the year. A new student arrives midterm: Sedgewick Bell, whose grades are poor and whose father, Hiram Bell, is a senator from West Virginia. The boy disrupts lessons, does poorly in his homework, and slips off campus to a girls' school across the lake. Hundert meets Hiram Bell to talk about the boy's behavior and finds a man with little interest in his son's education. Hundert decides to work with Sedgewick anyway, and as their friendship grows the boy's marks improve. Sedgewick sets his sights on the school's yearly Mr. Julius Caesar contest, a classics quiz.
Cast
- Rishi Mehtaas Deepak Mehta
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Emperor's Club (2002)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The film was originally titled The Palace Thief and was first developed at Fine Line Features, with Kevin Kline reportedly in talks both to star in it and to direct.
- The school campus scenes were filmed at the real Emma Willard School in Troy, New York, while principal photography otherwise took place in New York City from May to June 2001.
- Michael Hoffman, who had already collaborated with Kline twice before, on Soapdish and A Midsummer Night's Dream, was announced to direct.
