Nobel Son (2007)

Directed by

Randall Miller

Genre

comedy film

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

1h 50m

Rated

R

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 143 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Nobel prize winning chemist and his wife face a crisis when their son is kidnapped for ransom. The situation exposes the family's many dysfunctions and secrets.

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What happens

Nobel Son is a 2007 American black comedy about a dysfunctional family dealing with the kidnapping of their son for ransom following the father's winning of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The film features Alan Rickman as the prize-winning professor and Mary Steenburgen as his wife, with Bryan Greenberg as their kidnapped son. Principal photography for Nobel Son started on October 6, 2005, in Venice Beach, California, and ended on November 17, 2005. The official trailer and website were released on January 12, 2007. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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