Nobel Son (R)
synopsis
Barkley Michaelson is in a deep life rut. He's struggling to finish his PHD thesis when his father, the learned Eli Michaelson, wins the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Barkley and his mother, Sarah, 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. Needless to say, Eli refuses to pay it and so starts a venomous tale of familial 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 than in eating him dead."
details
Comedy, Drama
1 hr. 47 min.
Opened December 5th, 2008
MovieGoer Review
An outrageously entertaining movie that doesn't let up for a second, Nobel Son's unending twists and turns will have you reeling from the ride.
Story
This Nobel takes the prize for its ingenious blending of dark comedy... MORE
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synopsis
Barkley Michaelson is in a deep life rut. He's struggling to finish his PHD thesis when his father, the learned Eli Michaelson, wins the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Barkley and his mother, Sarah, 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. Needless to say, Eli refuses to pay it and so starts a venomous tale of familial 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 than in eating him dead."
details
Comedy, Drama
1 hr. 47 min.
Opened December 5th, 2008
MovieGoer Review
An outrageously entertaining movie that doesn't let up for a second, Nobel Son's unending twists and turns will have you reeling from the ride.
Story
This Nobel takes the prize for its ingenious blending of dark comedy... MORE
