The Professor and the Madman

• 7.1
• 2019-03-07
• 124 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

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

Director:

Farhad Safinia

Writer:

Farhad Safinia Todd Komarnicki John Boorman