11 Dec 1981
Pennies from Heaven
During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent school teacher.
The Emperor's Club
In everyone's life there's that one person who makes all the difference.
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.
Top Billed Cast
Kevin Kline William Hundert
Emile Hirsch Sedgewick Bell
Embeth Davidtz Elizabeth
Purva Bedi Anna Mehta
Rob Morrow James Ellerby
Edward Herrmann Headmaster Woodbridge
Helen Carey Miss Johnston
Jesse Eisenberg Louis Masoudi
Paul Dano Martin Blythe
Katherine O'Sullivan The Nun
Melissa Brown Blonde Girl
Sophie Wise Brunette
Emily Doubilet Redhead
Michelle Foody Real Redhead
Molly Regan Miss Peters
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
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