The Professor and the Madman (2019)
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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James Murray -
Dr. William Chester Minor -
Mr. Muncie -
Eliza Merrett -
Ada Murray -
Frederick James Furnivall -
Dr. Richard Brayn -
Henry Bradley -
Charles Hall -
Philip Lyttelton Gell -
Benjamin Jowett -
Max Mueller -
Henry Liddell -
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Tom Coleman
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Farhad SafiniaWriters:
John Boorman, Todd Komarnicki, Farhad Safinia, Simon Winchester (book)All Cast & Crew
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Filmed partially in Dublin, Ireland in 2016.
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James Murray:
This is about recording the evolution of meaning.
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Minor has a flashback of the Civil War and we see a man who has lost his leg in battle screaming. But the man has obviously already had surgery on the leg and it is now a healed stump, not a fresh injury.
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Biography | Drama | Mystery | ThrillerDetails
Release Date:
10 May 2019Language
English
Country of Origin
IrelandBox Office
Budget:
$25,000,000 (estimated)
Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$4,627,361
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