It lives on

Mid-19th century, Oxford University has undertaken an inventory of entire English language. They chase and hunt down every single word of all centuries of writing basically by reading every book, studying the fuck out of every word. And that's pretty much to story of this movie, compiling the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Interestingly they chose to cast couple of odd choices, namely Mel Gibson (Mad Max, Braveheart, Lethal Weapon) and Sean Penn (Mystic River, U Turn, The Thin Red Line) in the lead (their first time in a movie together), but perhaps their charisma and presence were required to see the slow-moving drama through.