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Far from noble: Alan Rickman stars in this amateurish film
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Release Date: Dec 05, 2008; Rated: R; Length: 110 Minutes; Genres: Comedy, Crime; With: Alan Rickman
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By Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW

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


Posted Dec 03, 2008
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