New York Cinema Circle | Nobel Son | November 2008

On Wednesday, November 19th 2008, Gen Art hosted an intimate Cinema Circle premiere for Nobel Son starring Alan Rickman, Bryan Greenberg, Shawn Hatosy, Mary Steenburgen, Bill Pullman, Eliza Dushku, and Danny DeVito.

High-Level members & industry guests joined Gen Art at the Landmark Sunshine Theater along with director Randall Miller, co-writer Jody Savin, and actor Alan Rickman, who were in attendance for a very special Q+A moderated by Gen Art's Aaron Levine.

The Q+A was followed by a cocktail reception where guests mingled with Alan and the filmmakers, sampled the different marks of Don Julio Tequila, and enjoyed SoNu water. Additional support for the event was provided by Acura, American Express, and Time Out New York.

For more information on the film visit nobelson.com

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."

“Outrageously entertaining… Insanely clever thriller.” -- Pete Hammond, Hollywood.com