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The Professor and the Madman(Movie, 2019)

2h 4min | Genres: History, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
The Professor and the MadmanRating: 3.6/5 (with 483483 votes)
The Professor and the Madman is a 2019 biographical drama film directed by Farhad Safinia (under the pseudonym P. B. Shemran), from a screenplay by Safinia and Todd Komarnicki based on the 1998 book The Surgeon of Crowthorne (published in the United States as The Professor and the Madman) by Simon Winchester. It stars Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, Natalie Dormer, Eddie Marsan, Jennifer Ehle, Jeremy Irvine, David O'Hara, Ioan Gruffudd, Stephen Dillane, and Steve Coogan. The film is about professor James Murray, who in 1879 became director of an Oxford University Press project, The New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (now known as the Oxford English Dictionary) and the man who became his friend and colleague, W. C. Minor, a doctor who submitted more than 10,000 entries while he was ... ()
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About The Professor and the Madman

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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Based on: "The Surgeon of Crowthorne" (find it on Amazon)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 29 languages: Arabic (AR), Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Latvian (LV), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Serbian (SR), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 03/07/2019
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Le Professeur et le Fou"
"Entre la Razón y la Locura"
"더 프로페서 앤 더 매드맨"
"Профессор и безумец"
"Професор і безумець"
Budget: 25,000,000 USD
Revenue: 4,957,273 USD (= 20%)

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:4628, Added: 02/14/2018, Last updated: 03/12/2024