The Professor and the Madman (2019)

Name: The Professor and the Madman
Released: 2019
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, Natalie Dormer, Eddie Marsan, Jennifer Ehle

• Movies, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller

• 124 min

7.1

The incredible true story that defined our world.

Directed by: Farhad Safinia
Casting: Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, Natalie Dormer, Eddie Marsan, Jennifer Ehle, Jeremy Irvine, David O'Hara, Anthony Andrews, Ioan Gruffudd, Stephen Dillane, Steve Coogan, Laurence Fox, Lars Brygmann, Brendan Patricks, Adam Fergus, Brian Fortune, Aidan McArdle, David Crowley, Kieran O'Reilly, Bryan Murray, Oengus MacNamara, Christopher Maleki, Sean Duggan, Bryan Quinn, Steve Gunn, Malcolm Freeman, Joe McKinney, Olivia McKevitt, Shane Noone, Robert McCormack, Ronan O'Connor, John Morton, Abigail Coburn, Paul Gough, Lucas Browne
Countries: France, Ireland, Mexico, United States of America
Premiere: 2019-03-07
Status: Released

Tags: based on novel or book, professor, lunatic asylum, biography, mental patient, dictionary, 19th century

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.