The Professor and the Madman

May. 10,2019      
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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.

Mel Gibson as  James Murray
Sean Penn as  Dr. William Chester Minor
Eddie Marsan as  Muncie
Natalie Dormer as  Eliza Merrett
Ioan Gruffudd as  Henry Bradley
Steve Coogan as  Frederick James Furnivall
Jeremy Irvine as  Charles Hall
Brendan Patricks as  Winston Churchill
Adam Fergus as  Alfred Minor
Jennifer Ehle as  Ada Murray

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Reviews

Actuakers
2019/05/10

One of my all time favorites.

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Executscan
2019/05/11

Expected more

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Voxitype
2019/05/12

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

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Tobias Burrows
2019/05/13

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

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