The Professor and the Madman

In the late 19th century, an unlikely friendship blossoms between Professor James Murray and Dr. William Minor, a convicted murderer who was institutionalized at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum for his crimes. Over 10,000 entries from Minor's notebook were submitted to Murray, who became the director of Oxford University Press's project to compile the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. As their friendship deepens, Minor's condition and past actions come under scrutiny, testing the limits of compassion, forgiveness, and redemption in this biographical drama about the creation of one of the most iconic dictionaries in history.