Director : Randall Miller
Release Date : 5 December 2008 (USA)
Genre : Comedy, Crime, Drama
Cast : (Credited cast) , Alan Rickman as Eli Michaelson, Bryan Greenberg as Barkley Michaelson, Shawn Hatosy as Thaddeus James, Mary Steenburgen as Sarah Michaelson, Bill Pullman as Max Mariner, Eliza Dushku as City Hall, Danny DeVito as Gastner, Ted Danson as Harvey Parrish, Ernie Hudson as Lasasso, Tracey Walter as Simon Ahrens, Lindy Booth as Beth, Kevin West as Jaundice rest of cast listed alphabetically: , Kirk Baily as Wil Cavalere, Dawn Balkin as Stewardess, Greg Collins as Foreman, Reid Collums as Delivery Guy, Lucy DeVito, Tiffany Downey as Model, Bennett Dunn as Bartender, Mark Famiglietti as Officer Relyea, Mary Pat Gleason as Ruby, Brendon Graham as Soldier, Joyce Guy as Eileen Moses, Larry Hankin as Dr. Polaczek, Juliette Jeffers as Claire, Matthew Kimbrough as Deacon, Hal B. Klein as Tully’s Guy, Joe Koons as Poet, Valerie Long as Excrement Woman, Wayne Lopez as Cabbie, Danika Quinn as Opera Singer (as Danika Osterman), Dean Rader-Duval as Ernie, Johanna Torell as Analea, Matt Winston as Clifford, Avis Wrentmore as Model
Plot : Barkley Michaelson is in a deep life rut. He’s struggling to finish his PhD thesis when his father, the learned Eli Michaelson… more |
Run Time : 110 min
Country : USA
MPAA : Rated R for some violent gruesome images, language and sexuality.
Language : English
Filming Locations : City of Industry, California, USA
Company : Gimme Five Films
Trivia : Though Mary Steenburgen and Ted Danson are married in real life, their characters never interact, Danson’s role being little more than a cameo.
Goofs : Continuity: After Det. Max Mariner questions Eli for the second time, asking about his bicycle, his shoes, and the paper bag mask, Eli and his mother follow the detective out to his car, parked with its wheels partially off the paved section. After a cut, the car is fully on the driveway before Mariner had moved it at all.
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Plot Summary : 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."
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