The Professor and the Madman (2019)
Director:
Farhad Safinia
Genre:
Biography, Drama
Country:
Ireland, France, Iceland, United States, Mexico, B
Time:
124 min.
Cast:
Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, Eddie Marsan
Plot:
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.
Keywords:
winston-churchill-character, lexicographer, oxford-english-dictionary, courtroom-sketch, opening-action-scene, mel-gibson, sean-penn, professor, mad
My rating:
7 / 10