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- “The Professor and the Madman” is the latest fiasco in bad movie history—what was once a dream project for Mel Gibson (who acquired the rights way back in 1998), and meant to be the directorial debut for his “Apocalypto” co-writer Farhad Safinia, has now become a black eye for the two.
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May 10, 2019 · “The Professor and the Madman” is the latest fiasco in bad movie history—what was once a dream project for Mel Gibson (who acquired the rights way back in 1998), and meant to be the directorial debut for his “Apocalypto” co-writer Farhad Safinia, has now become a black eye for the two.
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Dec 15, 2020 · Our Take: The Professor and the Madman is a wannabe prestige film featuring a very difficult-to-like star and a slightly less difficult-to-like star. Penn hobbles and howls and froths, his...
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May 10, 2019 · The Professor and the Madman: Directed by Farhad Safinia. With Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, Eddie Marsan, Natalie Dormer. Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.
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- Biography, Drama, History
- Farhad Safinia
- 2019-05-10
The Professor and the Madman limps out as a woefully half-baked and overcooked spectacle that mistakes reality for relevance. Full Review | Feb 21, 2020 Jim Schembri 3AW
May 25, 2019 · ‘The Professor and the Madman’: Film Review. Farhad Safinia (as P.B. Shemran) makes his feature debut with the troubled 'The Professor and the Madman' featuring Mel Gibson and Sean Penn.
The Professor and the Madman is a 2019 biographical drama film directed by Farhad Safinia (under the pseudonym P. B. Shemran), from a screenplay by Safinia and Todd Komarnicki based on the 1998 book The Surgeon of Crowthorne (published in the United States as The Professor and the Madman) by Simon Winchester.