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Nobel Son (2007)
Director: Randall Miller
Movie review
From Time Out Chicago
Rickman always plays odious but smart with sangfroid. Channeling his performances as Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd and Severus Snape from the Harry Potter films, he’s in his element in Nobel Son as a prizewinning, lecherous professor who tries to ignore the phone when his son Barkley (Greenberg) is kidnapped and held for ransom. Director Miller shows off some Paul Greengrass–style camerawork: A handheld is whisked around Barkley as he gets some rough duct-tape treatment, and brutality is meted out at a blurry, fast-cut rate. A revved-up techno soundtrack from Paul Oakenfold complements the pace as the plot turns to outrageous counterplot and revenge.Author: Anna King
Time Out Chicago Issue 197: December 4–10, 2008
Cast & crew
Director: Randall Miller
Cast: Alan Rickman, Bryan Greenberg, Bill Pullman, Shawn Hatosy, Mary Steenburgen, Eliza Dushku, Danny DeVito, Ted Danson, Ernie Hudson full cast
Rated: R
Duration: 110 mins
US Release: Dec 5 2008
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