Samuel Johnson: The Dictionary Man

Drama-documentary telling the story of Samuel Johnson's creation of the first English dictionary, in an attic room just off Fleet Street in Georgian London. The depressive writer-for-hire with Tourette's syndrome did for the English language what Newton had done for the stars, classifying words, fixing their meaning and bringing order to the chaos of language. It took him nine years, but in the process an anonymous writer became a literary superstar.

主要围绕Johnson编纂辞典的那段历史，稍微提了一下他的个人经历，内容基本取自于《The Life of Samuel Johnson》。James Boswell的扮演者也太帅了一点哈。