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.
The Emperor's Club has generally received positive reviews.
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The Emperor's Club was released in 2002 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 458 reviews, giving The Emperor's Club (2002) an average rating of 65%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 74%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 63%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with The Emperor's Club than critics were.
With a score of 65%, The Emperor's Club is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2002, which stands at 59%.
Other movies from 2002 with similar scores include films like Undercover Brother, Cypher and The Good Girl.
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