Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The professor and the madman / Voltage Pictures presents ; a Voltage Pictures and Fábrica de Cine production ; a Definition Films, 22H22, Zik Zak Filmworks and Caviar Antwerp co-production ; in association with Fastnet Films ; produced by Nicolas Chartier, Gastón Pavlovich ; screenplay by Todd Komarnicki and P.B. Shemran ; directed by P.B. Shemran

Publisher, Date:

[Santa Monica, CA] : Vertical Entertainment, [2019]

Description:

1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

video file

DVD video

region 1

Summary:

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.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: Not rated.

Subjects:

Murray, James A. H. (James Augustus Henry), 1837-1915 -- Drama.

Minor, William Chester -- Drama.

Oxford English dictionary -- Drama.

College teachers -- Drama.

Lexicographers -- Great Britain -- Drama.

Psychiatric hospital patients -- Great Britain -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Biographical films.

Historical films.

Detective and mystery films.

Film adaptations.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Safinia, Farhad, film director, screenwriter.

Komarnicki, Todd, screenwriter.

Chartier, Nicolas, film producer.

Pavlovich, Gastón, film producer.

Gibson, Mel, actor.

Penn, Sean, 1960- actor.

Dormer, Natalie, 1982- actor.

Marsan, Eddie, actor.

Ehle, Jennifer, 1969- actor.

Irvine, Jeremy, 1990- actor.

O'Hara, David, 1965- actor.

Andrews, Anthony, 1948- actor.

Gruffudd, Ioan, actor.

Dillane, Stephen, 1956- actor.

Coogan, Steve, actor.

Motion picture adaptation of (work): Winchester, Simon. Professor and the madman.

Voltage Pictures, presenter, production company.

Fábrica de Cine (Firm), production company.

Definition Films, production company.

22H22, production company.

Zik Zak Kvikmyndir, production company.

Caviar Antwerp, production company.

Fastnet Films, production company.

Vertical Entertainment (Firm), publisher.

Notes:

Based on the book by Simon Winchester.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2019.

Director of photography, Kasper Tuxen ; editor, Dino Jonsater ; music, Bear McCreary

Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, Natalie Dormer, Eddie Marsan, Jennifer Ehle, Jeremy Irvine, David O'Hara, Anthony Andrews, Ioan Gruffudd, Stephen Dillane, Steve Coogan.

DVD, region 1; wide screen; Dolby digital 5.1, Dolby digital 2.0.

Closed-captioned; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

ISBN:

9786317897380 : DVD

6317897387 : DVD

Publisher Number:

56286

Other Number:

1107801450

System Availability:

4

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

4

Control Number:

802082

# Local items in:

4

# System items in:

4

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Professo