Nobel Son stars the loveable Alan Rickman playing a very unlikeable character. He’s Professor Eli Michaelson PhD soon to be Nobel laureate of chemistry, an accolade that makes him even more insufferable. Mary Steenburgen is Sarah a crackerjack lawyer and Eli’s long suffering wife. The family dynamic is explored through their son Barkley (Bryan Greenberg) the apple of his mother’s eye but as a ...