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.

Kevin Kline
William Hundert

Emile Hirsch
Sedgewick Bell

Jesse Eisenberg
Louis Masoudi
Rishi Mehta
Deepak Mehta

Paul Dano
Martin Blythe

Rob Morrow
James Ellerby

Embeth Davidtz
Elizabeth

Edward Herrmann
Headmaster Woodbridge
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Release Date
November 22, 2002
Runtime
1h 48m
Rating
PG-13
Genres
Drama
Director