Nobel Son
The Story:
Barkley Michaelson (Bryan Greenberg) is in a deep life rut. He's struggling to finish his PHD thesis when his father, the learned Eli Michaelson (Alan Rickman) wins the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Barkley and his mother, Sarah (Mary Steenburgen) , a renowned forensic psychiatrist, now have the ill-fortune of living with a man-eating monster whose philandering ways have gotten less and less discreet.
As if Barkley's world is not bad enough, on the eve of his father receiving the Nobel, Barkley is kidnapped and the end requested ransom is the $2,000,000 in Nobel prize money. Barkley’s father refuses to pay the money, Barkley conspires with his kidnapper to steal the money from his father and the family relationships go from bad to worse.
So starts a venomous tale of familial dysfunction, lust, betrayal and ultimately revenge.
Starring:
Alan Rickman, Shawn Hatosy, Mary Steenburgen, Bryan Greenberg, Eliza Dushku, Danny DeVito, Ted Danson,
Directed By:
Randall Miller
Release:
2007
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