Nobel Son

Nobel Son is a 2007 American black comedy about a dysfunctional family dealing with the kidnapping of their son for ransom following the fathers winning of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The film features Alan Rickman as the prizewinning professor and Mary Steenburgen as his wife, with Bryan Greenberg as their kidnapped son.

Eli Michaelson Alan Rickman, a selfinvolved chemistry professor, learns he has been awarded the Nobel Prize. After verbally abusing his wife, son, colleagues, and nominal girlfriend, he heads off to Sweden with his wife, Sarah Mary Steenburgen, to collect his award. His son, Barkley Bryan Greenberg, misses the flight.Barkley Michaelson has chosen to study not chemistry but anthropology, and this perceived failure triggers constant torrents of abuse from his father. His missing the flight, though, is the apparently innocent result of having been kidnapped by the deranged Thaddeus James Shawn Hatosy, who claims to be Eli Michaelsons son by the wife of a former colleague. Thaddeus successfully obtains a ransom ofmillion, which he then splits with Barkley who, it appears, has orchestrated the kidnapping to obtain money from his father. ........

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