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In everyone's life there's that one person who makes all the difference.
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.Read moreLess
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 story
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.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Kevin KlineWilliam Hundert
Emile HirschSedgewick Bell
Jesse EisenbergLouis Masoudi
Paul DanoMartin Blythe
Rob MorrowJames Ellerby
Embeth DavidtzElizabeth
Edward HerrmannHeadmaster Woodbridge
Helen CareyMiss Johnston
Purva BediAnna MehtaExplore the crew
- Screenplay
- Neil Tolkin
- Director
- Michael Hoffman
- Producer
- Andrew S. Karsch
- Producer
- Marc Abraham
- Editor
- Harvey Rosenstock
- Original Music Composer
- James Newton Howard
- Director of Photography
- Lajos Koltai