Nobel Son is a 2007 English-language Comedy Crime film written by Randall Miller and Jody Savin. The movie is directed by Randall Miller and produced by Art Klein, Michael Ravine and Tom Soulanille. 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 barbarity in eating a man alive than in eating him dead. Written by Randall Miller & Jody Savin. Nobel son stars Alan Rickman in the lead role along with an ensemble cast including Bryan Greenberg, Shawn Hatosy, Mary Steenburgen, Bill Pullman, Eliza Dushku and Danny Devito. The music was composed by Paul Oakenfold along with Mark Adler. Cinematography was done by Mike Ozier and editing by Randall Miller. The film has a running time of 110 minutes. It was released on 3rd September 2008. Nobel Son was made on a budget of $4 million and at the box office it grossed only $0 million. Distribution rights for the motion picture were acquired by Freestyle Releasing.