The Professor and the Madman (2019)

The Professor and the Madman (The Professor and the Madman) is a 2019 American biographical thriller film directed by Farad Safinia from a screenplay by John Borman, Todd Komarnicki, Farad Safinia, and Simon Winchester. The film premiered in Croatia on March 7, 2019.

Professor James Murray (Mel Gibson) began work on sorting words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid-19th century and received over 10,000 suggestions from Dr. William Miner (Sean Penn), a patient at the Broadmoor Clinic for the Criminally Insane.

The film is based on Simon Winchester's 1998 book, The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness, and the Love of Words (The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Love of Words).