Professor and the Madman, The

USA 2019, 125 minutes
Dir. P. B. Shemran
Rating: [M] Violence.
Genres: Drama

Topics: Biopic.

Feat. Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, Natalie Dormer, Eddie Marsan, Jennifer Ehle, Jeremy Irvine

Aroview: Biographical drama set in London in 1879, where a professor (Mel Gibson) compiling the first Oxford England Dictionary receives a submission of over 10,000 entries from a patient at a psychiatric institution. Based on the 1998 book The Surgeon of Crowthorne.

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3 stars (Good Enough) Informative & interesting Irish film; made in Ireland ~Sandy
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2 stars (Good Try) Good production values. However, there was a lot of mumbling behind beards and it wasn't that easy to follow the screenplay but because the synopsis sounded interesting I hope to read the book. ~Tubbs

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