The Professor and the Madman

2019
5.8
The Professor and the Madman
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Title: The Professor and the Madman

Original Title: The Professor and the Madman

Year: 2019

Info

Release Dates

  • UK: May 15 2020
  • United States: May 10 2019

Plot

This historical drama-thriller tells the first attempts on the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Starring actors as prolific as Mel Gibson and Sean Peen, 'The Professor and the Madman' is set in London in the 19th Century and it tells the story of Professor James Murray (Mel Gibson) and Dr. William Chester Minor (Sean Penn). Murray is set with the colossal task of reuniting every single word from the English language and their meaning. Then, he starts getting letters with more than 10.000 entries, all sent from the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, a mental institution that has a patient, inmate 742 that has being helping: William Minor. This unlikely couple of investigators start working together on a search for words and meanings.

The film is based on the book 'The Surgeon of Crowthorne: a Tale of Murder, Madness and the Love of Words', by Simon Winchester.

Cast

Director:

Farhad SafiniaFarhad Safinia

Mel Gibson

Mel Gibson

James Murray

Sean Penn

Sean Penn

Dr. William Chester Minor

Natalie Dormer

Natalie Dormer

Eliza Merrett

Jennifer Ehle

Jennifer Ehle

Ada Murray

Ioan Gruffudd

Ioan Gruffudd

Henry Bradley

Jeremy Irvine

Jeremy Irvine

Charles Hall

Aidan McArdle

Aidan McArdle

Defence Attorney Clarke

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Trivia

17 years waiting

Mel Gibson, who is a producer on the film, bought the rights to the novel that has inspired the movie in 1999. It has taken Gibson 17 years to put it on the screen.

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