Opened: December 5, 2008
Runtime: 1 hr. 50 min.
Rated: R
Cast: Alan Rickman, Bryan Greenberg, Shawn Hatosy
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Synopsis:
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. In the words of Michel De Montaigne, the 16th century philosopher: "There is more barbarity in eating a man alive than in eating him dead."
FANDANGO FAN RATINGS
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Not what you'd expect by Everchange
The movie begins quite graphically and explosively. (Down to Alan Rickman's character having sex with one of his students.) Throughout the whole...more
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Surprisingly great by jen1234
My boyfriend wanted to go see this movie and so we went and I ended up enjoying it. I was really expecting it to be too violent for my liking but...more
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Killer cast doesn't disappoint by bill1234
This movie was really great. Randall Miller and Jody Savin did a really great job on this script and I'm so glad I saw it. The cast was great, every...more