Nobel Son

Offbeat mix of dark comedy and crime thriller about a Ph.D. student (Bryan Greenberg) who is kidnapped just before his self-centered, philandering father (Alan Rickman) is awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Rickman refuses to pay the $2,000,000 ransom-which also happens to be his prize money-leaving Greenberg in the company of his abductors, which reveals some startling truths about his hilariously dysfunctional family. With Mary Steenburgen, Shawn Hatosy, Eliza Dushku. 111 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital 5.1; Subtitles: English; audio commentary; deleted scenes; featurettes; more.