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The Professor and the Madman
Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to true-story dramas about unlikely collaboration, intellectual obsession, and compassion confronting institutional cruelty.
- Tone
- cerebral, melancholic, bleak
- Payoff
- catharsis, reflection
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- language, obsession, guilt, redemption, mental illness
- Setting
- Victorian era, scholarly institutions and a criminal asylum
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