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The Young Poisoner's Handbook

Release Date:January 20, 1995

Running Time:99 min

Genres:Drama, Comedy, Crime

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Cast

Hugh O'Conor Antony Sher Ruth Sheen Roger Lloyd Pack Charlotte Coleman Paul Stacey John Thomson Jack Deam Charlie Creed-Miles Robert Demeger Tobias Arnold Norman Caro

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Synopsis

Graham Young is a teenage misfit living in suburban London in the 1960s. He hates his stepmother but loves chemistry, and the two impulses unite in a wicked plot to slowly poison her. After she dies, he's found guilty and sent to a psychiatric hospital, where an idealistic doctor thinks he can be cured.

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