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The Professor and the Madman

The incredible true story that defined our world.

7.1 / 10

124 minutes

2019-03-07

English

FR

Actors :

Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, Eddie Marsan, Natalie Dormer, Ioan Gruffudd, Steve Coogan, Jeremy Irvine, Brendan Patricks, Adam Fergus, Jennifer Ehle, Brian Fortune, Aidan McArdle, David Crowley, Kieran O'Reilly, Bryan Murray

Description

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.

Reviews

SWITCH.

SWITCH.

6/23/2021, 3:58:29 PM

In all likelihood, you will leave this film with a little more of an understanding of how the dictionary came to be, and a little more resentment for Gibson (one of the producers) for pushing this project to happen, regardless of its lacklustre subject. It's pleasant enough, but it's clear England must produce a certain number of period dramas a year and 2019 was just about to fall under the quota...

mitohobe

mitohobe

6/23/2021, 5:12:46 PM

I really like it. It had a story within a true Story. Which in my opinion made it a little complex and exciting. Good for young adults and up. Teenagers might not find it so compelling but that's just a short time in their life when they're looking for total entertainment and action. This is not that film but there is a great story to be told with a interesting backdrop of facts. Mel Gibson is exc...

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

3/28/2022, 8:09:31 PM

This is the best effort I've seen from Sean Penn since "Milk" almost twelve years ago. His portrayal of the schizophrenic William Chester Minor who, having spent almost 40 years of his life in Broadmoor psychiatric hospital, became one of the single most significant contributors to the orginal Oxford Dictionary of English is superb. He captures the flaws of this paranoid etymologist warts and all,...