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.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and spare.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
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Cast
- Kevin KlineWilliam Hundert
- Emile HirschSedgewick Bell
- Jesse EisenbergLouis Masoudi
- Rishi MehtaDeepak Mehta
- Paul DanoMartin Blythe
- Rob MorrowJames Ellerby
- Embeth DavidtzElizabeth
- Edward HerrmannHeadmaster Woodbridge
- Helen CareyMiss Johnston
- Molly ReganMiss Peters
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- Michael HoffmanDirector
- Neil TolkinScreenplay
- Lajos KoltaiDirector of Photography
- James Newton HowardOriginal Music Composer
- Harvey RosenstockEditor
- Andrew S. KarschProducer
- Marc AbrahamProducer
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