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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Nobel Son

The Numbers Rating: 2.42 (12 votes) Rate it - Rating Details
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 25% - Rotten
Theatrical Performance
Total US Gross $539,572
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Released December 5, 2008 (limited)
January 23, 2009 (DVD Sale)
MPAA Rating R for some violent gruesome images, language and sexuality
Running Time:110 minutes
Highest Combined Star Gross591 (see full chart)
Distributed by Freestyle Releasing
Source Original Screenplay
Major Genre Thriller/Suspense
Country United States
Production Method Live Action
Creative Type Contemporary Fiction
Director Randall Miller

Synopsis

Barkley Michaelson is 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 discreet. 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. In the words of Michel de Montaigne, the 16th century philosopher: "There is more barbarity in eating a man alive than in eating him dead."

Trailer

Cast

Alan Rickman    Eli Michaelson
Bryan Greenberg    Barkley Michaelson
Eliza Dushku    City Hall
Bill Pullman    Max Mariner
Mary Steenburgen    Sarah Michaelson
Shawn Hatosy    Thaddeus James
Danny De Vito    George Gastner
Ted Danson    Harvey Parrish
Ernie Hudson    Lasasso
Lindy Booth    Beth
Tracey Walter    Simon Ahrens

Weekend Chart Record

DateRank Gross% ChangeTheatersPer TheaterTotal GrossDays
12/5/2008 16 $333,912   893 $374 $333,912 3
12/12/2008 56 $16,603 -95.03% 99 $168 $539,572 10

Daily Chart Record

DateRank Gross% ChangeTheatersPer TheaterTotal GrossDays
12/5/2008 -  $120,000   893 $134 $120,000 1

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