The Emperor's Club

The Emperor's Club is the story of William Hundert (Kevin Kline) who is a classic's professor at a boys school. Professor Hundert tries to help a young, trouble making boy Sedgewick Bell (Emile Hirsch) win a contest about the Roman Emperor's. Hundert has to do this while being in love with a married woman Elizabeth (Embeth Davidtz) and watching out for a back-stabbing friend James Ellerby (Rob Morrow). It is also a story about school life and the antics of Sedgewick along with friends, Martin Blythe (Paul Dano), Deepak Mehta (Rishi Mehta) and Louis Masoudi (Jesse Eisenberg). As the competition nears the boys have to write different quizes on the classics, and the top three enter the contest. Hundert helps Bell join the contest and at the contest Hundert discovers that Bell was cheating, so he asks him a question he knows that Bell won't get, and Deepak wins. Now in the future Bell is a high power business man and he gets his old class together for a reunion and a rematch of the contest, will he win this time?

I thought this movie was pretty good. It is along the lines of Dead Poets Society. Kevin Kline did a good job of playing a stern old professor. The boys antics were somewhat amusing. The twist at the end isn't too hard to see coming. The filmography was excellent, probably because of the great setting of the area around the school and the school's gothic archetecture. Overall an ok family type movie. Not really that thought provoking but it is interesting enough. Besides all that I said, I liked it anyways, you'll have to see for yourself.

Professor Hundert teaching

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