Review The Professor and the Madman (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.



 
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The Professor and the Madman

The Mel Gibson and Sean Penn-led period film “The Professor and the Madman,” which deals with the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary, will be getting a theatrical release after all in the second quarter of this year via Vertical Entertainment.

Shot several years ago, the project has been in a legal limbo due to a dispute between Icon Productions and Voltage Pictures. The story is based on Simon Winchester’s about how an inmate at an asylum for the criminally insane submitted many thousand entries for the OED.
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The Professor and the Madman

A Farhad Safinia-directed film about the genesis of the Oxford English Dictionary which hits cinemas and On Demand on May 10th.

Gibson plays Professor James Murray, who in 1857 set about compiling the Oxford English Dictionary, one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. Penn is Dr. W.C. Minor, who submitted more than 10,000 entries but also was an inmate at an asylum for the criminally insane. Natalie Dormer, Jeremy Irvine, Ioan Gruffudd and Jennifer Ehle co-star.
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