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Voltaire said the secret of being boring is to say everything.
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The Young Poisoner’s Handbook
(dir. Ben Ross) (1995)
O dear, what can the matter be?
1950s Britain never looked so dystopian and between his grotesque family and idiot prison psychiatrists, you find yourself wanting young Graham to keep getting away with it. Of course, with silly, smug, progressive psychiatrists like Dr Ziegler to let him loose and call him cured, he’s a shoe-in!
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