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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rated by buyers PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Type of bind: DVD
Brand: Universal
EAN num: 9780783278094
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN number: 0783278098
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Quantity: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publishing house: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 06, 2003
Running Time: 108 minutes
Sale Popularity Level: 10285
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: November 22, 2002
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Powerful and inspiring story about the meaning of honor the price of virtue and the belief that in everyones life there is that one person who makes all the difference Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 06/21/2005 Starring: Kevin Kline Rob Morrow Run time: 110 minutes Rated by buyers Pg13 Director: Michael Hoffman
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Comparisons to Dead Poets Society are inevitable, but The Emperor's Club achieves a rich identity all its own. In the honorable tradition of great teacher dramas like Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Kevin Kline is well cast as Mr. Hundert, longtime teacher of classics and assistant headmaster of St. Benedict's Academy for Boys. There he encounters a defiant student and senator's son (Emile Hirsch) who desperately needs--but ultimately rejects--Hundert's lessons on leadership, integrity, and the shaping of character. Adapted from Ethan Canin's short story 'The Palace Thief,' the film is conventional to a fault, its flashback structure unfolding in Hollywood shorthand. But its noble sentiments remain potently intact, allowing Kline a performance of great emotional nuance while imparting lessons of universal value. 'This is a story with no surprises,' as Hundert says, but The Emperor's Club may surprise you with its admirable portrait of a life well lived. --Jeff Shannon
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It's so hard to say why I do not like this film without giving away the plot. The teacher was honored at the end of the day, which is good. But he made some bad decisions along the way in the name of hope for his students. And those decisions came back to kick him in the pants. The moral of this story seemed to be, he lived his life sort of right and it sort of came out ok in the end. Dead Poets Society was a much better film than this.
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Although there are some holes in the script, I love this movie. The performance by the flat-bellied Kevin Kline, a fastidiously erudite teacher at St. Benedict's boarding school of high repute is a memorable one indeed. I teach at a school resembling this, although not of such an elitist brand.
(Did he always need to wear suspenders, rather than a belt?)
First the drawbacks. The professor of ancient history would be the very last to spot technological gadgetry. But here he does before anyone else. No, one of my great teachers, William Jones of the University of New Hampshire, who taught similar subjects, couldn't even use a laser pointer. So, please. Also, the Romans were a particularly brutal people, inspiring Jesus to rebel against them. They were so, what, crass and brutal that the central idea that teaching character by teaching their history is an arguable one. The Greeks, too, though espousing a marvelous philosophy, practiced the execrable policy of child exposure, something even the luminous Aristotle defended by dubious argument. And the boys caught skinny dipping. They were in a canoe, and aged nuns were coming. Here's what would have happened: they would have hightailed it out of there!
But for those caveats, Kevin Kline rocks. He dresses fastidiously, writes magnificently on the blackboard, and is utterly believable as an eminently decent man whose vocation is teaching.
The side stories of a sycophantic colleague who upstages him professionally is played very well by Rob Morrow. And his love interest is done sparingly and wonderfully. I wish I knew the actress's name. She announces she's leaving for Oxford with her husband. Eyes tear up. It's obvious the two love one another. And at the dissolution of her marriage, she comes to marry her true love. Completely secondary, but it does just enough to flesh out the character.
One of the features I most liked was the portrayal of politicians as people who are essentially sociopathic. Sedgwick Bell, the son of a West Virginian US senator, is portrayed as such a one, though very charismatic, as is often the case. In giving him a grade of an A+, when he deserved an A-, the scriptural message was obviated. That is that poor people--or rich ones--should not be judged favorably on that account alone. By advancing so far, Bell had "entered the light." Kline's character didn't want to cause him to regress; he wanted to reward him for all his recent effort. The professor (he was more than a teacher) thus gave in to his understandable instincts to reward Bell. But so doing, justice was violated, and a boy who was more deserving was pushed aside for competition in the Mr. Julius Caesar contest that's a hallmark of St. Benedict's.
That boy would ultimately become the man who had imbibed the lessons, moral and pedagogical, that St. Benedict's ultimately was established for.
Benedict is the Latin for Baruch, "blessing" in Hebrew. And the blessing at the end is a touching one indeed. I think you will be blessed by seeing the movie.
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Truely, an inspired movie and performance for all to benefit from. What all instructors aspired to be when they very first entered the art and profession of teaching others. Repleat with the joy and heartaches found in adolescence through adulthood. Kevine Kline reveals the drama, humor, agony and joy of why many become disillusioned yet remain, in this timeless classic.
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Mr. Hundert (Kevin Kline) desires to inspire his students at Saint Benedicts School for Boys with knowledge and appreciation of Ancient Roman History while teaching them the moral character and values necessary to be American leaders in the future. Ex: "It is not living that is important but living rightly. How will history judge you?" and "All of us are forced to look in the mirror and see who we really are."
However, Mr. Hundert's patience is stretched when Sedgewick Bell (Emile Hirsch) arrives at Saint Benedicts with his own values, which consists of doing whatever feels right or whatever is needed to get ahead. Mr. Hundert desires to help Sedgewick find his inspiration by giving him special privileges (such as taking a study book out of the library that no one is allowed to remove) while preparing for the prestigious Julius Caesar competition.
Later, Mr. Hundert curbs Sedgewick's final essay grade in the selection process for the Julius Caesar contest so that Sedgewick can be one of the three finalists. Unfortunately, when Mr. Hundert gives Sedgewick a grade he does not earn, it backfires on him.
However, even with some of the mistakes Mr. Hundert makes, he discovers by the end of the film that the majority of his students have greatly appreciated the impact he had made on their lives. One of the boys, Martin Blyth, sends his son to learn under Mr. Hundert, even after Mr. Hundert reveals to Martin a secret he had been hiding for years.
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The '02 cinematic release `The Emperor's Club' is a gentle, intelligent and at times profound morality tale that teaches us the importance of understanding the past so we may fully embrace the present and contribute to the future.
Kevin Kline is superb as Mr. Hundert, instructor of Roman and Greek History. As he strives to instill within the students of St. Benedict's Boy School the importance of the past and the need for everyone to strive to the best of their ability to make a lasting contribution in their lifetime he is met head-on with one rebellious pupil who challenges his ideas at every turn. Their personal struggle world-at-large as well. Is the past simply the dust upon which we trod and brush from our feet, or is it an ever present lesson on life and the meaning of why we're here?
This is an excellent film from beginning to end that will stay with you long after the closing credits roll by. This one belongs in your personal, permanent collection.
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