The Emperor's Club

The Emperor's Club

“In everyone's life there's that one person who makes all the difference.”

November 22, 2002PG-131h 48mTMDB ★ 7.1

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.

Genres

Drama

Studio

Universal Pictures

Language

en

Status

Released

Box Office

How The Emperor's Club performed

Budget

N/A

Worldwide Gross

$16.3M

Gross Profit

N/A

Return

N/A

Opening Wknd (est.)

$2M

Domestic (est.)
International (est.)
$8M$8M

Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (30% of the domestic run, typical for Drama) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.

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