The Professor and the Madman

Biography, Drama, Mystery

The film is about a professor, who in 1857 began compiling the Oxford English Dictionary, and a doctor who submitted over 10,000 entries while he was undergoing treatment at a criminal lunatic asylum.

Directed by: Farhad Safinia (as P. B. Shemran)
Starring: Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, Natalie Dormer, Eddie Marsan, Jennifer Ehle, Jeremy Irvine, David O'Hara, Ioan Gruffudd, Stephen Dillane, Steve Coogan
Produced by: Nicolas Chartier, Gastón Pavlovich
Screenplay by: Todd Komarnicki, Farhad Safinia (as P. B. Shemran)
Based on: The Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester

Music by: Bear McCreary
Cinematography: Kasper Tuxen
Edited by: Dino Jonsater

Production company: Fastnet Films, Icon Entertainment International, Voltage Pictures
Distributed by: Vertical Entertainment
Release date: May 10, 2019 (United States)

Running time: 124 minutes
Country: United States, Ireland
Language: English

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