The Young Poisoner's Handbook
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Benjamin Ross
Hugh O'conor
Antony Sher
Ruth Sheen
Roger Lloyd Pack
Charlotte Coleman
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
It's 1961, and in a small terraced house in Neasden, overlooking London's busy North Circular Road, 14-year-old Graham Young is hunched over his home-made chemistry set. Obsessed by the mysterious black powder Antimony and a heavy metal called Thallium, Graham knows the only way to become the celebrated toxicologist he boasts himself to be is to test out his chemical theories on a control group. His experiments on family and schoolfriends lead to chronic illness, disfigurement, agonizing death... and to Graham being convicted of murder and imprisoned in a high security mental hospital for the criminally insane. Eight years later, on the recommendation of Dr. Zeigler, famous for his pioneering work with psychopaths, Graham is paroled and sent back into society. But has he really been rehabilitated? His new workmates at the photographic laboratory will soon find out because it's there he's reunited with an old friend he hasn't seen in years--Thallium, bottles and bottles of the seductive stuff....
Director
Benjamin Ross
Cast
Hugh O'conor
Antony Sher
Ruth Sheen
Roger Lloyd Pack
Charlotte Coleman
Paul Stacey
Samantha Edmonds
Vilma Hollingbery
Frank Mills
Charlie Creed-miles
Arthur Cox
John Thomson
Jean Warren
Simon Kunz
Frank Coda
Tim Potter
Hazel Douglas
Roger Frost
Norman Caro
Dorothea Alexander
Robert Demeger
Jack Deam
Peter Pacey
Rupert Farley
Malcolm Sinclair
John Abbott
Cate Fowler
Frank Baker
David Savile
Mark Gordon
Crew
Jane Biro
Maria Djurkovic
Michelle Guish
Caroline Hewitt
Matthias Kammermeier
Max Keene
Rainer Kolmel
Eckhard Kuchenbecker
Rob Lane
Sarah Lucraft
Peter Mcaleese
Stewart Meachem
Simon Mein
David Pinnington
Jeff Rawle
David Redman
Stuart Renfrew
Benjamin Ross
Carole Scotta
Anne Sopel
Mark Stevenson
Eric Stonestrom
Frank Strobel
Hubert Taczanowski
Hubert Taczanowski
Sam Taylor
Fran Triefus
Katharina Zollner
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Co-winner, along with Fridrik Thor Fridriksson's "Cold Fever" (Iceland/1995), of the Channel 4 Director's Award at the 1995 Drambuie Edinburgh Film Festival.
Expanded Release in United States April 19, 1996
Released in United States 1995
Released in United States August 1995
Released in United States February 1995
Released in United States January 1995
Released in United States March 1, 1996
Released in United States May 1995
Released in United States on Video January 7, 1997
Released in United States September 1995
Released in United States Winter February 23, 1996
Shown at American Film Market (AFM) in Los Angeles February 23 - March 3, 1995.
Shown at Berlin International Film Festival February 9-20, 1995.
Shown at Cannes Film Festival (market) May 17-28, 1995.
Shown at Drambuie Edinburgh Film Festival August 13-27, 1995.
Shown at Locarno International Film Festival (in competition) August 3-13, 1995.
Shown at Sundance Film Festival (Special Screenings) in Park City, Utah January 19-29, 1995.
Shown at Toronto International Film Festival (First Cinema) September 7-16, 1995.
Feature directorial debut for Benjamin Ross who graduated from the MFA program in screenwriting and directing at Columbia University in New York City.
Began shooting May 22, 1994.
Completed shooting July 15, 1994.
Released in United States 1995 (Shown at AFI/Los Angeles International Film Festival (British Film Showcase) October 19 - November 2, 1995.)
Released in United States 1995 (Shown at American Film Market (AFM) in Los Angeles February 23 - March 3, 1995.)
Released in United States January 1995 (Shown at Sundance Film Festival (Special Screenings) in Park City, Utah January 19-29, 1995.)
Released in United States on Video January 7, 1997
Released in United States February 1995 (Shown at Berlin International Film Festival February 9-20, 1995.)
Released in United States Winter February 23, 1996 (NY)
Expanded Release in United States April 19, 1996
Released in United States March 1, 1996 (Nuart; Los Angeles)
Released in United States May 1995 (Shown at Cannes Film Festival (market) May 17-28, 1995.)
Released in United States August 1995 (Shown at Drambuie Edinburgh Film Festival August 13-27, 1995.)
Released in United States August 1995 (Shown at Locarno International Film Festival (in competition) August 3-13, 1995.)
Released in United States September 1995 (Shown at Toronto International Film Festival (First Cinema) September 7-16, 1995.)
