The Professor and the Madman (2019)
"The incredible true story that defined our world."
Critics Score
🎬 34%
(RT: 41%, MC: 27) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Anthony Andrews as Benjamin Jowett
Is The Professor and the Madman good?
Most people think so. 82% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 34%, but audiences disagreed.
Where it ranks on ThumbScore
By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.
Overview
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. Wikipedia ↗
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