The Professor and the Madman

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Overview

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

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Cast: Eddie Marsan, Ioan Gruffudd, Jennifer Ehle, Jeremy Irvine, Laurence Fox, Mel Gibson, Natalie Dormer, Sean Penn, Stephen Dillane, Steve Coogan

Director: Farhad Safinia

Genre: Biography, Drama, History

Country: Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Mexico, UK, USA

Release Year: 2019

IMDB Rating: 7.2 (54449 votes)

TMDB Rating: 7.1 (1145 votes)

Rotten Tomatoes: 41

Metacritic: 27

Runtime: 2h 4m

Budget: 5,098,627 USD

Release Date: 2019-05-10

Awards: Awards, 1 nomination total