The Emperor's Club
| The Emperor's Club | |
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| Directed by | Michael Hoffman |
| Screenplay by | Neil Tolkin |
| Based on | "The Palace Thief" (1994) by Ethan Canin |
| Produced by | Marc Abraham Andrew S. Karsch Michael O'Neill |
| Starring | Kevin Kline Steven Culp Embeth Davidtz Patrick Dempsey Joel Gretsch Edward Herrmann Emile Hirsch Rob Morrow Harris Yulin |
| Cinematography | Lajos Koltai |
| Edited by | Harvey Rosenstock |
| Music by | James Newton Howard |
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 109 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $12.5 million |
| Box office | $16.3 million |
The Emperor's Club is a 2002 American drama film directed by Michael Hoffman and starring Kevin Kline. Based on Ethan Canin's 1994 short story "The Palace Thief", the film follows a prep school teacher and his students at a fictional East Coast boys' prep school, St. Benedict's Academy.