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The Professor and the Madman
2019
· Movie
· 124 min
C
MEANRANK
66/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3029
- IMDb #1784
- Google retired #313
- Metacritic #4260
- Letterboxd #2599
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4221
+5 more
- Metacritic Audience #1803
- Criticker #1879
- Kinopoisk #1610
- AlloCiné #1337
- Trakt #1586
Every rating
27–94
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 27, highest is Google on 94. Critics average 34, everyone else 73.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →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.
Details
- Director
- Farhad Safinia
- Writers
- Farhad Safinia, John Boorman, Todd Komarnicki
- Based on
- The Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester
- Studio
- Fastnet Films, 22H22, Caviar Antwerp NV, Definition Films
- Released
- 7 March 2019
- Country
- France, Ireland, Mexico, United States, Iceland, Belgium
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 124 min
- Budget
- $25.0M
- Box office
- $5.0M
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Awards
1 nomination total
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