Movie: Nobel Son (2007)
“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 discrete. As if Barkley’s world is not bad enough, on the eve of his father receiving the Nobel, Barkley is kidnapped and the 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.” Written by Randall Miller & Jody Savin”
- Director: Randall Miller
- Release Date: 5 December 2008 (USA)
- Run Time: 110 min
- Country: USA
- Genre: Comedy , Crime , Drama , Thriller
- MPAA: Rated R for some violent gruesome images, language and sexuality.
Tagline: Keep your eyes on the prize.
Trivia: Mary Steenburgen and Ted Danson are married in real life, but their characters never interact. Danson’s role is little than a cameo.
Goofs: Boom mic visible: A studio boom mike is clearly visible when the reporter is giving a report from the families’ front yard, even though the reporter is speaking into a microphone.