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The Professor and the Madman

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The Professor and the Madman

2019

DIRECTOR

Farhad Safinia

STARRING

Mel Gibson, Sean Penn

Genre

Drama, Biography

SYNOPSIS

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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