Nobel Son
by Randall Miller
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Actor: Alan Rickman, Bill Pullman, Bryan Greenberg, Mary Steenburgen, Shawn HatosyDirector: Randall Miller
Brand: RICKMAN,ALAN
Writer: Randall Miller
Writer: Jody Savin
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 110 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-06-09
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
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DVD Review: Save Yourself the Ear Ache
Summary: 2 Stars
"Nobel Son" (2008), a comedic dramatic crime thriller, was written, produced, directed and edited by Randall Miller, who might also have done the on-site catering, for all I know. The film does boast a number of stars, and does give some older ones jobs.
Brit Alan Rickman, (the Harry Potter movies, Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street) evidently a very valuable man on a film site, plays the lead as Eli Michaelson, a chemistry professor at a California university who's just, for reasons of getting the plot going, we must assume, been awarded a Nobel Prize. Rickman turns in one of his patented performances here, creating a truly dislikable character, egotistical, skirt-chasing, dishonest, nasty, and sarcastic. Mary Steenburgen (Nixon - A Presidency Revealed, The Grass Harp) plays Sarah, his long-suffering psychotherapist wife. Her real-life husband Ted Danson ( Becker - The First Season,Cheers - The Complete First Season ) has a cameo as Harvey Parrish, a fellow academic of Eli's. Bryan Greenberg (Bride Wars) plays Eli's eminently forgettable son Barkley, laboring over his master's thesis. Danny De Vito (The Big Kahuna,L.A. Confidential) plays George Gastner, an obsessive-compulsive whom Sarah treats. The lovely Eliza Dushku (Dollhouse: Season One) plays son Barkley's love interest, young female poetess City Hall, a thankless part that forgets no stereotype of what a young poetess might be. Shawn Hatosy (The Cooler) plays Thaddeus James, a nutter, who, wouldn't you know it, kidnaps Eli's son Barkley for a ransom of $2 million, exactly the amount of the Nobel Award, just as Eli and Sarah are taking off for Scandinavia, and the biggest night of their lives. How thoughtless, inconsiderate, and inconvenient of him, indeed. Bill Pullman ("Lake Placid") will play Detective Max Mariner; Ernie Hudson ("Ghostbusters") will play Sgt. Bill Canega, cops who are brought in to search for Barkley.
The presence of both Steenburgen and Danson in the film leaves me wondering if they produced it for themselves and their friends. Nevertheless, the acting's reasonably good. I would have been happy to see more of the comely Dushku, more face time, that is, not more skin: there's plenty of that on view. The movie plays as if writer/director Miller made lists of various old plot devices, and wrote his script, one from Column A, one from Column B. The soundtrack, of already dated techno, could deafen the dead. Save yourself the ear ache.
Description of Nobel Son
Genre: Comedy
Rating: R
Release Date: 9-JUN-2009
Media Type: DVD
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