Many moviegoing folks, as well as the many film critics out there, have waxed melancholic about the lack of originality in modern filmmaking. Indeed, it’s easy to imagine a passionate period project drawing considerable buzz and anticipation. The added fact that the stars are Mel Gibson and Sean Penn, two of Hollywood’s most notorious bad boys (sporting epic beards), is just the icing on the anticipatory cake.
“The Professor and the Madman” is about as unique as any film in recent memory. It tells of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary.
