Barkley Michaelson is in a deep life rut. He's 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 discrete. 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.
Movie Type:Comedy, Drama and Thriller MPAA Rating:R for some violent gruesome images, language and sexuality. Running Time:1 hr. 50 min. Directed By: Randall M. Miller Cast: Shawn Hatosy, Bryan Greenberg, Alan Rickman, Mary Steenburgen, Eliza Dushku Released: December 5th, 2008 (limited) U.S. Box Office:TBA
