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.

• Universal Pictures
• Kevin Kline
• Emile Hirsch
• Jesse Eisenberg
• Rishi Mehta
• Paul Dano
• Rob Morrow
• Embeth Davidtz
• Edward Herrmann