The Professor and the Madman
The Professor and the Madman is a 2019 biographical drama film, directed by Farhad Safinia (under the pseudonym P. B. Shemran), from a screenplay by Safinia, and Todd Komarnicki, based on the 1998 book The Surgeon of Crowthorne (released under the same title used for the film in the U.S. and Canada) by Simon Winchester. It stars Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, Natalie Dormer, Eddie Marsan, Jennifer Ehle, Jeremy Irvine, David O'Hara, Ioan Gruffudd, Stephen Dillane, and Steve Coogan.