The read
Audiences rate it 45 points higher than critics do. Most of the 651 2010s history movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
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
IMDb7.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes42%
Metacritic27/100
Audiences rate it 45 points higher than critics do.
1,315 audience votes
Key crew
- Farhad SafiniaDirector
- Todd KomarnickiWriter
- Farhad SafiniaWriter
- John BoormanWriter
- Bear McCrearyOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Mel GibsonJames Murray
- Sean PennDr. William Chester Minor
- Natalie DormerEliza Merrett
- Eddie MarsanMuncie
- Jennifer EhleAda Murray
- Jeremy IrvineCharles Hall
- David O'HaraChurch
- Anthony AndrewsBenjamin Jowett
- Ioan GruffuddHenry Bradley
- Stephen DillaneDr. Richard Brayne
- Steve CooganFrederick James Furnivall
- Laurence FoxPhilip Lyttelton Gell
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Themes
based on novel or bookprofessorlunatic asylumbiographybased on true storymental patientdictionary19th century
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