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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The Young Poisoner's Handbook was released in 1995 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 31 reviews, giving The Young Poisoner's Handbook (1995) an average rating of 73%.
Overall, cinema-goers much prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 81%, compared to film critics, who gave it a considerably lower average score of 0%. Amateur reviewers enjoyed The Young Poisoner's Handbook a lot more than professional critics.
With a score of 73%, The Young Poisoner's Handbook is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1995, which stands at 59%.
Other movies from 1995 with similar scores include films like Clueless, Crimson Tide and While You Were Sleeping.
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