Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 124 min
- Age rating
- 15
- Language
- English
- Country
- France, Ireland, Mexico, United States, Iceland, Belgium
- Frights
- Mild
The 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.
- based on novel or book
- professor
- lunatic asylum
- biography
- based on true story
- mental patient
- dictionary
- 19th century
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Mel Gibson
James Murray
Sean Penn
Dr. William Chester Minor
Natalie Dormer
Eliza Merrett
Eddie Marsan
Muncie
- Jennifer Ehle — Ada Murray
- Jeremy Irvine — Charles Hall
- David O'Hara — Church
- Anthony Andrews — Benjamin Jowett
- Ioan Gruffudd — Henry Bradley
- Stephen Dillane — Dr. Richard Brayne
- Steve Coogan — Frederick James Furnivall
- Laurence Fox — Philip Lyttelton Gell
- Lars Brygmann — Max Mueller
- Brendan Patricks — Winston Churchill
- Adam Fergus — Alfred Minor
- Directed
- Farhad Safinia
- Written
- Farhad Safinia, John Boorman, Todd Komarnicki
Production
- Rating
- 7.1 / 10 · 1,298 ratings
- Studio
- Fastnet Films, 22H22, Caviar Antwerp NV, Definition Films, Zik Zak Filmworks, Voltage Pictures
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