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Kevin Kline stars as classics teacher William Hundert in this boarding school drama. Passionate and principled, Hundert has always taught his students the importance of living a life ruled by order, discipline and morality. But when, in 1976, Sedgwick Bell (Emile Hirsch) - the headstrong and irreverent son of a powerful politician - walks into his classroom, Hundert's methods and morals are put to the test. The lesson he learns from his encounter with Bell resonates over the years that follow, and comes to the fore again a quarter of a century later when Hundert finds himself reunited with his class of '76. Jesse Eisenberg, Paul Dano and Rishi Mehta co-star as Bell's classmates.
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Artist: Kevin Kline
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This film is very well played by Kelvin Kline (Also playing in The Wild Wild West).
It's a story about honour in life.
A professor in a private college (Kelvin Kline), teaches 16-year old children about honourable men throughout history.
His goal is to bring them the knowledge from these men to their own way of acting in life. This means in a honourable way.
The children's task is to learn about these men and at the end of the year there is a challenge: The Julius-Caesar challenge, where only the best of the best can compete, with only their knowledge against each other.
But on one day a new student joins the class: Though he's a bright student he has a very rebellious personality, because his father, the senator that gives the college a financial help, forced him to go to the college. The funny thing is that the professor, a very respected man in the college believes that the boy could be the winner of the Julius-Caesar challenge and get his place in the hall of fame. On a time the professor has to question his faith in the boy because he has to choose between him, the bright but "rebellious" kid and another student that strives after the Julius-Caesar award. The rebellious one has never had to "fight" or struggle for something, because he just got everything from his father. This boy doesn't know anything about honour and the professor sees that, but he thinks, no he is almost a 100% sure, that with some help he could get better and live in a more honourable way throughout life. And the other student the one that did had to struggle all his entire life to get in an college like this, just like his father that even won the Julius-Caesar award when he was 16 years old. This is the start of the REAL movie!
It's a story about honour in life.
A professor in a private college (Kelvin Kline), teaches 16-year old children about honourable men throughout history.
His goal is to bring them the knowledge from these men to their own way of acting in life. This means in a honourable way.
The children's task is to learn about these men and at the end of the year there is a challenge: The Julius-Caesar challenge, where only the best of the best can compete, with only their knowledge against each other.
But on one day a new student joins the class: Though he's a bright student he has a very rebellious personality, because his father, the senator that gives the college a financial help, forced him to go to the college. The funny thing is that the professor, a very respected man in the college believes that the boy could be the winner of the Julius-Caesar challenge and get his place in the hall of fame. On a time the professor has to question his faith in the boy because he has to choose between him, the bright but "rebellious" kid and another student that strives after the Julius-Caesar award. The rebellious one has never had to "fight" or struggle for something, because he just got everything from his father. This boy doesn't know anything about honour and the professor sees that, but he thinks, no he is almost a 100% sure, that with some help he could get better and live in a more honourable way throughout life. And the other student the one that did had to struggle all his entire life to get in an college like this, just like his father that even won the Julius-Caesar award when he was 16 years old. This is the start of the REAL movie!
P.S.:
The message that it brings you is wonderful!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Kevin Kline stars as Hundert, a respected history teacher at an exclusive boys school, who meets his match in Sedgewick, a new boy who wants only to ridicule and test him. Hundert allows the boy a spot in a prestigious school competition, but he cheats, thus setting his future path. At a reunion twenty-five years later, Hundert discovers that most of his former students turned out to be honorable men, but Sedgewick is not among them.
This film is often compared to other teacher films, as it should be, such as Goodbye, Mr. Chips and The Dead Poets Society. Kline's quiet, confident portrayal of a man who lives by the ideals of honor and duty is wonderful, without being sentimental. Emile Hirsch as Sedgewick is brash and likeable. Joel Gretsch plays Sedgewick twenty-five years later, as a charming, successful, and immoral man.
I heartily recommend this quiet, profound, and realistic film, which shows how one outstanding teacher positively afftects the lives of many, though not all, of his students.
This film is often compared to other teacher films, as it should be, such as Goodbye, Mr. Chips and The Dead Poets Society. Kline's quiet, confident portrayal of a man who lives by the ideals of honor and duty is wonderful, without being sentimental. Emile Hirsch as Sedgewick is brash and likeable. Joel Gretsch plays Sedgewick twenty-five years later, as a charming, successful, and immoral man.
I heartily recommend this quiet, profound, and realistic film, which shows how one outstanding teacher positively afftects the lives of many, though not all, of his students.
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This Film was made up to look like a variation of "Dead Poet's Society" (at least here in Austria/Germany it was), so I was rather reluctant to watch it. I was very surprised. The film is magnificent, a lot better than DPS (it deals with something completely different). The whole film revolves around ethics and how the ethical can deal with the non-ethical. Sounds very high-brow? Well, a Latin teacher of very strict ethics manages to wake a spark in a pupil of dubious morals. To nurture that spark the teacher goes against his principals. It turns out the student is not worth the effort of the teacher. This leaves the teacher doubting his moral code. Furthermore, the student and other not so strictly principled people succeed in life, while the teacher remains what he is: a teacher, although he had hoped to become headmaster. So are ethics (i.e. rigid priciples) worthless? And can you imbue them into people who don't believe in them?
These are some of the questions the film asks. Some of them it answers, and some of them it doesn't. And that's the really beautiful thing about this film: it leaves you thinking for a long time afterwards, because it doesn't present you with any ready-made answers.
A must see for anybody who cares about values and how to pass them on to the younger generation and whether one can still live by them and win (but what is to "win"?). So, basically, it should be a film for everybody.
These are some of the questions the film asks. Some of them it answers, and some of them it doesn't. And that's the really beautiful thing about this film: it leaves you thinking for a long time afterwards, because it doesn't present you with any ready-made answers.
A must see for anybody who cares about values and how to pass them on to the younger generation and whether one can still live by them and win (but what is to "win"?). So, basically, it should be a film for everybody.
The film is based on the short story "The Palace Thief" by Ethan Canin, which I haven't read, but intend to do.
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