Mar 07, 2019
124 min
Full-HD

The Professor and the Madman (2019)

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.

Category

History Drama Mystery Thriller

Country

France Ireland Mexico United States of America Iceland Belgium

Companies

Fastnet Films 22H22 Caviar Antwerp NV Definition Films Zik Zak Filmworks Voltage Pictures Fábrica de Cine Icon Productions

Mel Gibson

James Murray

Sean Penn

Dr. William Chester Minor

Natalie Dormer

Eliza Merrett

Eddie Marsan

Muncie

Jennifer Ehle

Ada Murray

Jeremy Irvine

Charles Hall

David O'Hara

Church

Anthony Andrews

Benjamin Jowett

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