The Young Poisoner's Handbook

Movie · 1h 39m

Starring Hugh O'Conor, Antony Sher, Ruth Sheen, Roger Lloyd Pack

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.