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Nobel Son (2008)
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DDetails Release Date: Dec 05, 2008; Rated: R; Length: 110 Minutes; Genres: Comedy, Crime; With: Alan Rickman
In Nobel Son, Eli Michaelson (Alan Rickman) is a noted chemistry professsor who has just received the Nobel Prize; he's also a lecherous, ill-tempered misanthropic jerk. When the son (Bryan Greenberg) he treats like dirt gets kidnapped by a psychopath (Shawn Hatosy) who is not what he seems, the director, Randall Miller (Bottle Shock), appears to be trying to cross a bad Elmore Leonard thriller with a bad indie-festival family-angst comedy. He gives us the worst of both worlds, parading each superficially clever motif — severed thumbs, cannibalism, the magic of Pat Benatar's lyrics — with an amateur's show-off glee. D
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