Emperor's Club, The

Aroview: Kevin Kline gives a rich portrait of a dedicated professor of Classics at a private boys school who finds his greatest challenge in a bad egg student.

Initially retreading the plotlines of DEAD POET’S SOCIETY, this tends toward a darker view of the teacher-student relationship, though reaches a more conventional closure. Interesting also for its depiction of how the future leaders of America are groomed for power.

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