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The Young Poisoner's Handbook
1995
**
Director: Benjamin Ross
Cast: Hugh O'Conor, Antony Sher, Ruth Sheen, Roger Lloyd Pack

A weak black comedy about a macabre boy who inevitably grows up into a murderer. The film uses the story structure and even the main theme of A Clockwork Orange, sadly without any of the film's wit or humour.