When you have two old-school DOUBLE Oscar Reward Winners in one movie, you can’t play wrong. Mel Gibson and Sean Penn are coming to theaters next month with true based story movie called The Professor and the Madman. This film is their first where they play together and it already has great rating on popular movie database IMDB.
The movie is based on best-selling novel The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester and it tells the story about the thin line between madness, genius and obsession. Professor James Murray (Mel Gibson) starts with writing first edition of Oxford English Dictionary and gets surprised when he receives 10,000 entries from one patient of Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor (Sean Penn)….
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Director of the movie is Farhad Safinia (actually this is his debut as a director) known as a writer of movieApocalypto (2006). He was also helping with writing along with John Boorman and Todd Komarnicki.
Beside two amazing double Oscar Reward-Winners (Gibson and Penn) we can see more great actors as Natalie Dormer (In Darkness (2018), Game of Thrones, The Hunger Games sequels), Jeremy Irvine (War Horse (2011), Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)), Stephen Dillane (Game of Thrones, Darkest Hour (2017)), Jennifer Ehle and others
Take a look at trailer for The Professor and the Madman:
The movie The Professor and the Madman comes to cinema at May 10.
You can find more details about the film at: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5932728/