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Il manuale del giovane avvelenatore

Titolo originale: The Young Poisoner's Handbook
  • 1995
  • R
  • 1h 39min
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Hugh O'Conor in Il manuale del giovane avvelenatore (1995)
Coming-of-AgeDark ComedyPsychological DramaSerial KillerTeen DramaTrue CrimeComedyCrimeDrama

Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaThis film is based on a true story about a British teenager who allegedly poisoned family, friends, and co-workers. Graham is highly intelligent, but completely amoral. He becomes interested... Leggi tuttoThis film is based on a true story about a British teenager who allegedly poisoned family, friends, and co-workers. Graham is highly intelligent, but completely amoral. He becomes interested in science, especially chemistry, and begins to read avidly. Something of a social misfit... Leggi tuttoThis film is based on a true story about a British teenager who allegedly poisoned family, friends, and co-workers. Graham is highly intelligent, but completely amoral. He becomes interested in science, especially chemistry, and begins to read avidly. Something of a social misfit, he is fascinated by morbid subjects such as poisons and murder. His family environment i... Leggi tutto

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    • Hugh O'Conor
    • Antony Sher
    • Tobias Arnold
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    7,0/10
    3928
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Benjamin Ross
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Jeff Rawle
      • Benjamin Ross
    • Star
      • Hugh O'Conor
      • Antony Sher
      • Tobias Arnold
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    • 15Recensioni della critica
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    Hugh O'Conor
    Hugh O'Conor
    • Graham Young
    Antony Sher
    Antony Sher
    • Dr. Ernest Zeigler
    Tobias Arnold
    • Young Graham
    Ruth Sheen
    Ruth Sheen
    • Molly
    Roger Lloyd Pack
    Roger Lloyd Pack
    • Fred
    Norman Caro
    • Mr. Goez
    Dorothea Alexander
    • Mrs. Goez
    Charlotte Coleman
    Charlotte Coleman
    • Winnie
    Paul Stacey
    • Dennis
    Samantha Edmonds
    • Sue
    Robert Demeger
    • Mr. Dexter
    Jack Deam
    Jack Deam
    • Mick
    Peter Pacey
    Peter Pacey
    • Dickie Boone
    Joost Siedhoff
    • Dr. Scott
    Vilma Hollingbery
    • Aunty Panty
    Frank Mills
    Frank Mills
    • Uncle Jack
    Rupert Farley
    • Nurse Trent
    Dirk Robertson
    • Nurse Hopwood
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      • Benjamin Ross
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Jeff Rawle
      • Benjamin Ross
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    8Nyssa

    A funny, witty, and creepy glimpse inside genius gone horribly wrong.

    Director Benjamin Ross has done a terrific job creating a humorously warped view of life through the eyes of Graham Young, alienated boy genius and serial poisoner. Hugh O'Conor perfectly portrays Graham's carefully studied innocent appearance, which Graham constantly feigns lest anyone find out what he is really thinking in his twisted, calculating mind. O'Conor manages the tricky job of looking innocent enough to fool the other characters, but maniacal enough that the audience always knows what is going on.

    Through Graham's eccentric (to say the least) point-of-view, we witness the painfully mundane Young family, the pitifully easy to fool psychiatric and medical community, and the pathetically simple-minded middle-class. Ross captures the comic disdain with which Graham sees his surroundings without disposing of the distance necessary to be horrified at Graham's "experiments" and the fate of his unwitting subjects.

    Because of Ross' careful tightrope walking between distance from and intimacy with Graham, the audience can't fully fall under Graham's spell and sympathize completely with him. There are some gruesome scenes of people reacting to poison, but these are necessary to heighten the audience's horror at Graham's incapability to assess his own actions and to recognize his own evil. Ross gives us an entertaining, yet twisted, glimpse into genius gone wrong, without sensationalizing Graham as a hero.

    It is also very hard to go out for drinks or coffee after seeing this movie.
    MichaelCarmichaelsCar

    Black comedy near its best

    Why has 'The Young Poisoner's Handbook' not developed a cult following? I have some theories, but this is certainly a film that should have found a larger audience at some point.

    This is pitch black British comedy near its best, reminiscent of both Hitchcock and 'A Clockwork Orange' -- its three-part structure is similar to that of 'A Clockwork Orange,' given that the protagonist is free, then confined, then free again to illustrate the vanity of "rehabilitation" where it concerns psychopaths, and we even hear excerpts from Purcell's Funeral Music for Queen Mary, which Wendy Carlos incorporated into her electronic score for 'Clockwork.' Whether 'The Young Poisoner's Handbook' is paying homage or borrowing, the movie itself is a highly individual work that should please anyone with a fondness for Orwell or Ealing.

    Hugh O'Conor, with his wide-eyed gift for simulating innocence, is an ideal selection for the role of Graham Young, the real-life poisoner of the British village of Bovingdon, who slowly poisoned his stepmother to death with antimony sulfide, finishing the job with thallium. Cursed with a banal home life and a sociopathic mind, his self-described "gift for chemistry" is put to obviously nefarious uses, occasionally using friends as guinea pigs before the main attraction.

    The director, Benjamin Ross, makes a tremendously impressive debut here. His selection of music together with his fluid editing and camera-work often produce stirring and exciting results, the 1960s small British town setting keenly observed, with a very black wit. Graham's wicked stepmother, played by the singular Ruth Sheen (seen in many Mike Leigh films), joyfully accepts her first dose of poison after finding a box of Velvet Victories chocolates on her bedroom pillow, with a note reading "To my darling mother, xxxx." There's a vivid sense of the dustiness of the Young household, the darkness of Graham's bedroom punctured by the eerie glow of his flasks, the frustration of an overcrowded working class household where the telly's always running with the silliness of popular variety programs. The film also adroitly contrasts the self-important grandeur of Young's genocidal ambitions with the unglamorous pettiness of the actual crimes and the prosaic Bovingdon environment to which his perpetration of them was fortunately limited (the real Graham Young had wanted to be known as "The World's Poisoner," but was instead given the considerably less flattering moniker "The Teacup Poisoner"). Absurdity and grimness are very skillfully balanced. A marvelous, overlooked film.
    bob the moo

    Dark and amusing but not to all tastes

    As a boy, Graham was always keen on chemistry. When he is introduced to a deadly chemical he begins to conduct experiments on his cruel family – namely by slowly poisoning his mother. Shortly after her death Graham is caught for her murder and sentenced to a mental institution. With help and treatment from a physiatrist, Graham is rehabilitated and released into the community. But can his love of poison be controlled?

    I first saw this in the cinema many years ago and held off writing a review because I wanted to be sure that I could give it a fair review – memory not that great you know. So I watched it on channel 4 last week and was quite taken aback – I didn't remember it being quite that dark and disturbed. The plot is quite like Kind Hearts & Coronets in the set up and delivery (more in the delivery) but is a lot darker and more cruel than that classic. The comedy is of the very dark type and mostly comes from Graham's narration. His narration plays his acceptance of very shocking events as run-of-the-mill things that happen in the background, this juxtaposition works well and makes it funny.

    The actual poisonings are not always easy to laugh through, while some of his mother's ordeal is played for laughs, most of it is quite cruel and upsetting. I think it worked well for playing the audience on the fact that we didn't quite know what this was – it was based on a true story yet was played for laughs as well as serious at times. However this same ploy is to it's weakness as it is difficult to settle into for this same reason. The director seems very assured and handles this better, mixing inappropriate music with the action as well as directing it very flat and clinically.

    O'Conor is the perfect choice for the role. Onscreen he is cold and cruel but it is his narration is where he excels – delivering perfectly deadpan lines. The support cast are all OK but mostly play exaggerated characters on the whole – British stereotypes and such. The film wisely leaves them as undeveloped this because if we cared too much for them or related to them then it would have been impossible to feel anything but revulsion for Graham. As cardboard cutouts they seem less than Graham in terms of the film (wonder how the real victims' families felt about this view).

    Overall this is a strange film but one that has enough going for it to be worht watching. However it should be noted that it is quite cruel and upsetting – we are not allowed to feel anything for Graham's victims. The humour is rarely laugh out loud funny and this will probably only be for those who like their comedy very dark.
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    psychotic teen hands out lethal Mickey Finns'

    Troubled teen is sent to a nuthouse for rehabilitation of his addiction to concocting toxic substances. I got a couple of laughs from this film, but it wasn't exactly a comedy - if it was, then clearly it was the blackest comedy I've ever seen. Be ready to see lots of vomit and a really vomitous lounge singer named Dickie Boone. Very good picture about an extremely deluded boy.
    Infofreak

    Twisted and original!

    'The Young Poisoner's Handbook' is one of the freshest, most daring and original movies to come out of Britain in years. Hugh O'Conor is perfect as the oddball "young poisoner", and the supporting cast are all splendid too. I'm not sure just how accurate the events portrayed here are, but it doesn't matter anyway. As a movie this is a compelling black comedy that will be appreciated by anyone who is looker for something that isn't your usual bland and simplistic fare.

    I shudder to think how this plot and characters would have been handled in a mainstream Hollywood movie! I can just see Leo or Toby in the lead role, an "explanation" for his psychotic behaviour, and an uplifting, heart warming happy ending. Thankfully Benjamin Ross has a more unique vision, and he has given us a movie that will stay with you for years to come. 'The Young Poisoner's Handbook' is fantastic!

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      The film was not screened at many local cinemas, due to the tone of the film, and out of respect for the surviving victims, and the relatives of the dead.
    • Blooper
      When Dr. Zeigler visits the institution for mentally unstable criminals in which Graham is hospitalized, the director of the institution says, referred to another patient: "Vulpes pilum mutat, non mores", saying it means "The leopard never changes his spots". Graham corrects him, saying it means instead: "The wolf changes its fur, but not its nature". Actually, "vulpes" means "fox".
    • Citazioni

      Graham Young: I want to be the greatest poisoner the world has ever seen.

    • Connessioni
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Up Close and Personal/Muppet Treasure Island/Fargo/Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam/The Young Poisoner's Handbook (1996)
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      Living In The Past
      Composed by Ian Anderson

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    • Data di uscita
      • 15 settembre 1995 (Regno Unito)
    • Paesi di origine
      • Regno Unito
      • Germania
      • Francia
    • Lingua
      • Inglese
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    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • 49 Warren Road, Neasden, Brent, Londra, Inghilterra, Regno Unito(Young family home)
    • Aziende produttrici
      • British Screen Productions
      • Eurimages
      • FilmFernsehFonds Bayern
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