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.
Acting
Hugh O'Conor's deadpan menace is terrifyingly polite.
Direction
Ross makes poisoning look mundanely bureaucratic.
Production
Grotty 60s suburbia so authentic you can smell the tea.
Director
Benjamin Ross
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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