Moral Rating: | not reviewed |
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Primary Audience: | Adults |
Genre: | Comedy Drama |
Length: | 1 hr. 42 min. |
Year of Release: | 2008 |
USA Release: |
December 5, 2008 (750 theaters) DVD: March 10, 2009 |
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Thieves in the Bible: Theft, Robbery, The two thieves
Featuring | Alan Rickman, Bryan Greenberg, Shawn Hatosy, Mary Steenburgen, Bill Pullman, Eliza Dushku, Danny DeVito, Ted Danson, Ernie Hudson, Tracey Walter, Lindy Booth, Kevin West, Kirk Baily, Dawn Balkin, Greg Collins, Reid Collums, Lucy DeVito, Tiffany Downey, Bennett Dunn, Mark Famiglietti, Mary Pat Gleason, Brendon Graham, Joyce Guy, Larry Hankin, Juliette Jeffers, Matthew Kimbrough, Hal B. Klein, Joe Koons, Valerie Long, Wayne Lopez, Danika Osterman, Dean Rader-Duval, Johanna Torell, Matt Winston, Avis Wrentmore |
Director |
Randall Miller |
Producer | Art Klein, Randall Miller, Michael Ravine, Jody Savin, Ron Savin, Tom Soulanille, Terry Spazek, Henry Suarez |
Distributor | Freestyle Releasing |
“Keep your eyes on the prize”
Here’s what the distributor says about their film: “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.’”