New Release Fridays: The Professor and the Madman

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Jumpstart your weekend and be the first to see newly-released DVDs! Popcorn included.

This week's movie:
The Professor and the Madman

A drama set in the nineteenth century based on the book by Simon Winchester. Sir James Murray is the professor and Dr. William Chester Minor is the madman. Dr. Minor, a retired army surgeon living in an insane asylum after being found innocent of a crime by reason of insanity, learns volunteers are needed to contribute entries to what would become the Oxford English Dictionary. Dr. Minor contributes thousands of entries to the dictionary being edited and compiled by Sir James Murray.

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