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.
Kevin Kline
as William Hundert
Emile Hirsch
as Sedgewick Bell
Embeth Davidtz
as Elizabeth
Purva Bedi
as Anna Mehta
Rob Morrow
as James Ellerby
Edward Herrmann
as Headmaster Woodbridge
Helen Carey
as Miss Johnston
Jesse Eisenberg
as Louis Masoudi
Paul Dano
as Martin Blythe
Katherine O'Sullivan
as The Nun
Melissa Brown
as Blonde Girl
Sophie Wise
as Brunette
