"Rappaccini's Daughter" is the 14th installment of The American Short Story television anthology series produced by Learning in Focus and Sea Cliff Productions for the Public Broadcasting Service. This installment is based on the 1844 Nathaniel Hawthorne Gothic short story of the same name. Synopsis: Giacomo Rappaccini, a medical researcher in Padua grows a garden of poisonous plants. He brings up his daughter to tend the plants, and she becomes resistant to the poisons, but in the process she herself becomes poisonous to others.

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