Movie
The Professor and the Madman
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2019-03-07
- Runtime
- 124 min
- Genres
- History, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Fastnet Films, 22H22, Caviar Antwerp NV, Definition Films, Zik Zak Filmworks, Voltage Pictures, Fábrica de Cine, Icon Productions
- Country
- France, Ireland, Mexico, United States of America, Iceland, Belgium
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Mel Gibson as James Murray
- Sean Penn as Dr. William Chester Minor
- Natalie Dormer as Eliza Merrett
- Eddie Marsan as Muncie
- Jennifer Ehle as Ada Murray
- Jeremy Irvine as Charles Hall
- David O'Hara as Church
- Anthony Andrews as Benjamin Jowett
- Ioan Gruffudd as Henry Bradley
- Stephen Dillane as Dr. Richard Brayne
- Steve Coogan as Frederick James Furnivall
- Laurence Fox as Philip Lyttelton Gell
Crew
- Farhad Safinia - Director
- Todd Komarnicki - Writer
- Farhad Safinia - Writer
- John Boorman - Writer
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