In Nobel Son, Alan Rickman plays an egomaniacal Nobel Prize-winning chemist whose son is kidnapped and held for $2 million ranson, which Rickman is not so eager to hand over. Roger Ebert says it's "all entertaining. The plot by itself could have become tiresome; no audience enjoys spending all evening walking into stone walls. But the acting is another matter. Rickman supplies the crown jewel in the cast, but Mary Steenburgen is no less amusing as his wife, Sarah."
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"Does it have to be so witless, so stupid, so openly contemptuous of the very audience it’s supposed to be pandering to?"
i'm afraid garth ennis has ruined the punisher forever.
The irony is that anyone would make a flick about a tv interview that sucked and showed no real insight into Nixon. I know, I watched that crap when it aired and David Frost was supposed to be this big deal that could get the truth out of anybody. Nobody ever got the truth from Tricky.