Seemingly reviewed by professional critics similar to the intellectual snobs who surrounded James Murray at the dawn of the Oxford English Dictionary, "The Professor and the Madman" suffers the same blistering assessment from naysayers as did Murray. A pity, since the movie is eminently watchable, with compelling performances from Mel Gibson and Sean Penn and the cast all around. Once again some reviewers seem to mistake movies for documentaries. This movie gives us a fine and dramatic look at how the greatest work of scholarship in the English language found its way into being. That alone is worth a watch.
Review of The Professor and the Madman
