Nobel Son

2007

Action / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Thriller

15
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 44% · 63 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 44% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.1/10 10 6321 6.3K

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Plot summary

Soon after his insufferably arrogant father wins the Nobel Prize for chemistry, Barkley Michaelson is kidnapped by Thaddeus James, a young genius who claims to be Barkley's illegitimate half-brother. Motivated not so much by money as revenge, Thaddeus tries to convince Barkley to help him carry out a multimillion-dollar extortion plot against their patriarch.

Director

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Randall Miller

Top cast

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Mary Pat Gleason as Ruby
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Joyce Guy as Eileen Moses
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Mary Steenburgen as Sarah Michaelson
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Lucy DeVito as Devotee
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933.69 MB
1280*544
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 50 min
Seeds 1
1.76 GB
1920*816
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 50 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by janos451 7 / 10

Prize Winner

"Nobel Son" is one of the more entertaining movies of the year. It is an intriguing, quirky mix of quick-cutting, edgy direction; an outstanding cast; and some unusually literate text and sophisticated in-jokes for the who-is-doing-it (rather than who-done-it) genre. Randall Miller is the MTV director, Miller and Jody Savin - each with a rather meager resume as a writer - are responsible for the winning script. It's rare and fortuitous these days to walk into a theater to see a movie whose plot you know, and still be engaged and surprised. Such is the case here. With deliberate exaggeration and advance apologies, I'd compare "Nobel Son" to "Sleuth" both for its tit-for-tat, now-you-see-it/now-you-don't continuous cliff-hanger nature, and the sense of amusement and fun even through some rather harrowing action. "Son" is *like* "Sleuth" in the true sense of that grossly abused word: having some of the same characteristics. Only a great English stage actor such as Alan Rickman could make the silly cartoon figure of Eli Michaelson believable - and he does, becoming sort of likable in his unfettered loathsomeness. Michaelson is rotten to the core, antisocial beyond the worst case of Asperger's, plus a miserable human being - and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Mary Steenburgen plays his long-suffering wife, a character with a vaguely delineated past as a storied criminal investigator. Never too far from her is Bill Pullman, a detective, former colleague, current shoulder to lean on. Bryan Greenberg is the son, who - as you must know from all the ads and buzz - is held for ransom, apparently by Shawn Hatosy, a young actor who more than holds his own against the veterans in the cast. Danny Devito and Ted Danson show up, unnecessarily but - in the case of Danson - not irritatingly. Eliza Dushku has a star-turn debut as City Hall (that's the name), a looney poet, painter, and fornicator (their word, not mine). There is something inexplicable about the cinematography: everybody in the cast looks like hell, sans makeup, sans Vaseline-smeared lens, sans everything. Pullman wins the race to Showing All the Pores, pasty-white, as unattractive as possible, but the others - including the women - are not far behind. A new trend? Makeup crew on strike? Who knows? For sure it's distracting, but "Son" is too good to allow this stupid quirk to interfere.
Reviewed by RosanaBotafogo 8 / 10

I loved it ...

It's not stupendous, but it's very good, light dramatic load, softened by doses of sarcastic love and ironies, plot twits at every turn, fun, engaging, captivating ... I loved it ...
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