The Professor and the Madman

Name: The Professor and the Madman
Director: Farhad Safinia
Genre: History, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Released: 2019-03-07
Duration: 2 h 4 min
Rating: 7.124
Cast: Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, Natalie Dormer, Eddie Marsan, Jennifer Ehle

Directed by Farhad Safinia

20192h 4m7.1

Overview

Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.