It looks and sounds a lot like DEAD POET'S SOCIETY, but beneath James Newton Howard's swollen score and the 11th-hour flood of sentimentality lies a dark tale of corruption, moral compromise and failed conviction that remains faithful to Ethan Canin's "The Palace Thief," the bitter short story on which Michael Hoffman's film is based. Soon after retiring from a 34-year career teaching ancient history at St. Benedict's, the prestigious Southern prep school where tomorrow's movers and shakers receive the best education money can buy, William Hundert (Kevin Kline) is presented with an odd request. Sedgewick Bell (Joel Gretsch), a former student who's now the CEO of a ma...
Released:
2002
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
115 mins