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Released
2000 · FILM

Poison

She's mommy's little girl... and she'll do anything to stay that way.

Directed by
Runtime
93 min
ThrillerMysteryHorror
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

Traci is a teenage girl with a manipulative and dangerous streak, driven by an intense need to maintain a close bond with her mother, Dana, a former actress who has not achieved lasting success in Hollywood. Dana supports and shields Traci, even when her actions are harmful. Traci presents a youthful, charming, and seemingly innocent appearance, but beneath it lies a deadly nature. She is deeply attached to her mother and reacts with extreme hostility to any man who enters their lives. Dana, an attractive woman with a strong sexual drive, often engages with men for both professional and personal reasons, which causes Traci to spiral into jealousy and violent anger. Using her emerging sexuality, Traci is willing to seduce and kill anyone she perceives as a threat to her relationship with her mother.

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Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Donald PaonessaShot by Richard WincentyScored by Hal BeckettDesigned by Stephen Geaghan

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