Overview
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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DirectorMichael Hoffman
WriterNeil Tolkin
Cast
Kevin Kline
William Hundert
Emile Hirsch
Sedgewick Bell
Jesse Eisenberg
Louis Masoudi
Rishi Mehta
Deepak Mehta
Paul Dano
Martin Blythe
Rob Morrow
James Ellerby
Embeth Davidtz
Elizabeth
Edward Herrmann
Headmaster Woodbridge
Helen Carey
Miss Johnston
Molly Regan
Miss Peters
Helen Carey
Miss Johnston
Purva Bedi
Anna Mehta
Deirdre Lorenz
Dr. Kelly Ryan
Joel Gretsch
Sedgewick Bell (older)
Steven Culp
Older Martin Blythe
Rahul Khanna
Older Deepak Mehta
Patrick Dempsey
Older Louis Masoudi
Jimmy Walsh
Robert Bell
Michelle Foody
Real Redhead
Emily Doubilet
Redhead
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Keywords
cheatingprivate schoolteacherethics
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Revenue
$16M
TMDb Votes
401
Added May 14, 2026Updated Jun 3, 2026