Nobel Son

Nobel Son

6.0IMDb Score
Released:2007-04-28
Genre:Comedy, Crime, Drama
Duration:110 min
Country:United States of America
Director:Randall Miller
Actors:Alan Rickman, Bryan Greenberg, Shawn Hatosy, Eliza Dushku, Bill Pullman
Production:Gimme Five Films

Overview:

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.

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