The Professor and the Madman

The Professor and the Madman

Movie |

Based On Novel Or Book | Professor

  • Duration: 2h 4min
  • Music: Bear McCreary
  • Award(s): IFMCA 2020 (Nominated) Awards List
  • Similar To: The Wonder, Lost Girls
  • Story:
    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.
    Full Story
7.2/10
IMDb

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STORY AND RATINGS

Story
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.
Ratings

7.2/10

IMDb

AWARDS

Nominations
IFMCA Award

Best Original Score for a Drama Film | 2020 | Bear

BOX OFFICE

Budget 25,000,000 USD

Box Office Collection 4,957,273 USD

TRIVIA AND POPULAR DIALOGUES

Trivia

The making of the film led to a legal battle between star Mel Gibson and Voltage Pictures, because the latter wouldn't allow Gibson and original director Farhad Safinia to film scenes on location in Oxford, England. Because the film was already over budget and behind schedule, Voltage forced them to use Trinity College in Ireland as a substitute. Gibson and Safinia eventually left the project, with a new director and a new screenwriter (Todd Komarnicki) taking over. Gibson and his production company Icon Productions went to court to prevent the movie from being released, claiming that they were not allowed to finish the movie, but were unsuccessful. Gibson refused to promote the film afterwards.

Mel Gibson bought the rights to the Simon Winchester book "The Surgeon of Crowthorne" in 1999, and it took 17 years for him to get it to the screen.

At the professor's first meeting with the 'Madman', he is shown to have thought he was the superintendent of the facility rather than a patient. This was a popular story at the time, but it is, in fact, false. Dr. Murray was aware of his position well before his first visit.

The score includes a haunting song, a setting of Christina Rosetti's poem "When I am dead, my dearest" (published 1862) by Bear McCreary, sung by soprano Melanie Henley Heyn.

Due to legal wrangles surrounding the production and completion of this film, there was a three-year delay between the start of filming and the film's eventual theatrical release.

Popular Dialogues

"Ada Murray: Sometimes when we push away, that is when we most need to be resisted."

"James Murray: Who's she? Dr. William Chester Minor: The impossible. James Murray: The more impossible, the greater the love. Dr. William Chester Minor: Do you truly believe that? My heart is so sick. James Murray: Well... what I know of love is that the sickness often becomes the cure."