Cat. No. DVDM 1935: THE PROFESSOR AND THE MADMAN ~ MEL GIBSON / SEAN PENN / NATALIE DORMER / EDDIE MARSAN. TRANSMISSION / UNIVERSAL / SONY DL6933.
FORMAT: PAL REGION: 4.
COLOUR RUNNING TIME: 120 MINS
REVIEW: Based on the worldwide best-selling novel by Simon Winchester. The Professor And The Madman is an extraordinary true tale of madness, genius, and obsession about two remarkable men who created history with the writing of the Oxford English Dictionary.
The compilation of the Oxford English Dictionary began in 1857 and was one of the most ambitious and revolutionary projects ever undertaken. Professor James Murray (Mel Gibson) took on the challenge of creating the most comprehensive dictionary ever compiled, but no one knew that it would take him and his team over a century to compile all definitions. However, by enlisting definitions from people from all over the world. The dictionary could be compiled in mere decades.
As definitions were collected, the overseeing committee led by Professor Murray, discovered that one man Dr. W.C. Minor (Sean Penn), had submitted more than ten thousand words. When the committee insisted on honouring him, a shocking truth came to light: Dr. Minor, an American Civil War veteran, was a convicted murderer and being held at an asylum for the criminally insane.
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