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Poison

1991 · 1h 25m · Drama · Horror · Science Fiction

TMDB 6.0/10 (96 votes)

A trio of interweaved transgressive tales, telling a bizarre stories of suburban patricide and a miraculous flight from justice, a mad sex experiment which unleashes a disfiguring plague, and the obsessive sexual relationship between two prison inmates.

Directed by Todd Haynes

Box office $1M worldwide

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Poison

1991 · 1h 25m · Drama · Horror · Science Fiction

TMDB 6.0/10 (96 votes)

Directed by Todd Haynes

Box office $1M worldwide

IMDb ↗Screen catalogue →

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Edith Meeksas Felicia Beacon ("Hero")MWMillie Whiteas Millie Sklar ("Hero")BSBuck Smithas Gregory Lazar ("Hero")

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Notable quotes

“Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.”
— Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
“Better be poisoned in one's own blood then to be poisoned in one's principle.”
— Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan As quoted by Governor Barnett's Declaration to the Profile of Mississippi Broadcast via TV and Radio. Sep. 13, 1962 without citation and in An unknown legend of India: A bharat ratna By Gaurav Pundeer
“Son, I don't have money even to buy poison. Please help –”
— Dadasaheb Phalke in a letter to his son Bhalchandra in late 1930s, quoted in "Dadasaheb Phalke's family wants Bharat Ratna for him". Hindustan Times. 27 April 2013. Retrieved on 26 December 2013.
“All things are poison and nothing is without poison; only the dose makes a thing not a poison.”
— Paracelsus "Die dritte Defension wegen des Schreibens der neuen Rezepte," Septem Defensiones 1538. Werke Bd. 2, Darmstadt 1965, p. 510 (full text)
“Vipera Cappadocem nocitura mormordit; at illa Gustato peril sanguine Cappadocis.”
— A deadly echidna once bit a Cappadocian; she herself died, having tasted the Poison-flinging blood.
“All men carry about them that which is poyson to serpents: for if it be true that is reported, they will no better abide the touching with man's spittle than scalding water cast upon them: but if it happen to light within their chawes or mouth, especially if it come from a man that is fasting, it is present death.”
— Pliny the Elder, Natural History, Book VII, Chapter II. Holland's translation.

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