I once saw The Emperor’s Club (2002) as an in-flight movie for which I hadn’t bothered to get headphones – from what I could still follow of the story, it struck me as better than Dead Poets’ Society, but also in some ways dependent upon it -- Williams again plays a pre-school teacher, but the ultimate lesson is that while his teaching still had a positive effect on most of his students, he probably could have done even more for them if he hadn’t focused on giving extra chances to the “misunderstood” senator’s son who was really an entitled douchebro.