Nobel Son

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Nobel Son is a 2007 drama about a dysfunctional family. The father, played by Alan Rickman, wins the Nobel Prize. Eliza Dushku plays an insane asylum escapee. Other actors include Danny DeVito, Bill Pullman, Mary Steenburgen, Shawn Hatosy, Bryan Greenberg, Ted Danson, and Tracey Walter.

The plot summary is as follows: 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 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."

Shooting for Nobel Son started on Thursday, October 6th in Venice Beach, California and ended on November 17th, 2005. The official trailer and website were released on January 12, 2007. The movie is expected to be released in April 28 at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.