Nobel Son

Director: Randall Miller

Genre: Drama, Comedy, Thriller

Release Date: December 05, 2008 (U.S.)

Duration: 110 minutes

Cast: Alan Rickman, Bryan Greenberg, Shawn Hatosy, Mary Steenburgen, Eliza Dushku

Overview: Barkley Michaelson is in a deep rut of life. Is struggling to finish his doctoral thesis when his father, the learned Eli Michaelson, wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Barkley and his mother, Sarah, a renowned forensic psychiatrist, now have the misfortune to live with a man-eating monster whose philandering ways have received less and less discreet. Barkley as if the world is not bad enough, on the eve of his father receiving the Nobel, Barkley is kidnapped and the ransom requested is $ 2000000 in the Nobel prize money. Needless to say, Eli refuses to pay and so starts a venomous tale of family dysfunction, lust, betrayal and ultimately revenge. In the words of Michel de Montaigne, the 16th century philosopher: "There is more barbarity in eating a man alive who eat in him dead."