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Nobel Son (2007)
6.4
Ratings: 6.4/10 from 3,736 users
Metascore:
28/100
Reviews: 39 user | 58 critic | 18 from Metacritic.com
Barkley Michaelson is in a deep life rut. He's struggling to finish his PhD thesis when his father... See full summary » Director:Randall Miller |
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| Mary Steenburgen | ... | ||
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| Ted Danson | ... | ||
| Ernie Hudson | ... | ||
| Hal B. Klein | ... |
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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
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Lust, betrayal, kidnapping... and you thought your family had problems! See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated R for some violent gruesome images, language and sexuality See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Le prix de la rançon See more »Box Office
Opening Weekend:
$333,912 (USA) (7 December 2008) (893 Screens)Gross:
$540,183 (USA) (24 December 2008)Company Credits
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Mary Steenburgen and Ted Danson are married in real life, but their characters never interact. Danson's role is little more than a cameo. See more »Goofs
Boom mic visible: A studio boom mic is clearly visible when the reporter is giving a report from the families' front yard, even though the reporter is speaking into a microphone. See more »Quotes
Eli Michaelson: If anyone in this room ever doubted my intellectual superiority, you may now formally kiss my fine white ass.See more »
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