![]() ![]() ![]() The Madman is Sean Penn as William Chester Minor, a Civil War veteran introduced gunning down an innocent man in the street, and jailed for insanity with a mob baying for his blood. Murray was entrusted with a huge responsibility that of compiling the Oxford English dictionary, and the source material, Simon Winchester’s The Surgeon of Crowthorne, makes no bones about what a mammoth undertaking such an enterprise would be. ![]() Mel Gibson’s multiple swan-dives from grace are well-documented elsewhere although madness has provided signature roles in Mad Max and Lethal Weapon, he’s the professor here, the erudite Scot James Murray, giving him the chance to demonstrate the mastery of the Scottish accent that featured in Braveheart. A mooted re-shoot which didn’t happen seems to have led all concerned to write off the result a real shame, because there’s an interesting movie here. Reviewing it on Amazon Prime last night was the first legal route to assessing the film, although it seems to have been around for years it was leaked illegally long before a perfunctory set of tombstone reviews in the trades detailing post-production woes. It’s some time since The Professor and the Madman filmed in Dublin 2016 to be exact. ![]()
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