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Nobel Son
Comedy, Crime, Drama
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy twisty kidnapping stories driven by family dysfunction, sharp dialogue, and morally slippery characters.
- Tone
- darkly comic, satirical, tense
- Payoff
- amusement, revelation
- Pacing
- brisk
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- family resentment, intellectual vanity, revenge, identity, power
- Setting
- contemporary, affluent academic and urban domestic settings
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