Nobel Son

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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.

Cast
Shawn Hatosy as Thaddeus James/ Thaddeus James
Bryan Greenberg as Barkley Michaelson
Alan Rickman as Eli Michaelson/ Eli Michaelson
Mary Steenburgen as Sarah Michaelson
Bryan Greenberg as Barkley Michaelson
Eliza Dushku as City Hall
Bill Pullman
Danny DeVito as Gastner
Ted Danson as Harvey Parrish
Mary Pat Gleason as Ruby
Larry Hankin as Dr. Polaczek
Juliette Jeffers as Claire
Dean Rader-Duval as Ernie

Detail Info
Director Randall M. Miller
Writers Randall M. Miller, Jody Savin
Producers Art Klein, Tom Soulanille, Michael Ravine
Editors Dan O'Brien, Randall M. Miller
Music Paul Oakenfold (II), Mark Adler, Jonathan McHugh
Running Time 1 hr. 50 min.
Release Date December 5th, 2008 (limited)
Distributors Freestyle Releasing
Country United States