Escape from Pretoria vs The Professor and the Madman
Escape from Pretoria has the higher audience score (7.2/10 against 7.1/10 for The Professor and the Madman). Escape from Pretoria is the shorter watch at 1h 42m compared with 2h 4m. The Professor and the Madman is the older of the two (2019 against 2020). Both are drama, history, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Escape from Pretoria
The Professor and the Madman| Escape from Pretoria | The Professor and the Madman | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.2/10 | ★ 7.1/10 |
| Year | 2020 | 2019 |
| Length | 1h 42m | 2h 4m |
| Genres | Drama, History, Thriller | Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Francis Annan | Farhad Safinia |
| Main cast | Ian Hart, Daniel Radcliffe, Grant Piro, Daniel Webber, Mark Leonard Winter | Mel Gibson, Eddie Marsan, Natalie Dormer, Jeremy Irvine, Ioan Gruffudd |
Synopsis
Escape from Pretoria
South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape from the infamous Pretoria Prison.
The Professor and the Madman
Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.
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