The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
 


Genre:Comedy
Released: December 14, 2001
Director:Wes Anderson
Distributor:Buena Vista Distribution Compa
 
Starring:
Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller
 
Synopsis
Director Wes Anderson and his longtime friend and writing partner
Owen Wilson follow up Bottle Rocket (1996) and Rushmore (1998)
with this similarly offbeat comedy about a dysfunctional family reunion.
Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) was a successful attorney who had
three children with his wife Etheline (Anjelica Huston), an archaeologist.
Each of the Tenenbaum kids was a precocious genius: Chas (Ben Stiller)
made a killing as a child investor. Richie (Luke Wilson) was a junior tennis
champ and three-time U.S. Nationals winner. The adopted Margot (Gwyneth
Paltrow) was a playwright who won a 50,000-dollar Braverman Grant in the
ninth grade. When Royal abruptly left his family, however, it was the beginning
of two decades of betrayal and failure that would scar the Tenenbaums for life.
Their past resentments are bitterly held against Royal when he suddenly
reappears, claiming to have six weeks to live and a desire to reconnect
with his family. Typically, Royal's story is a sham, but his presence and
sincere desire for absolution soon have a profound effect on the Tenenbaums,
who are each dealing with thwarted desires and relationships. Among them
are Richie's lifelong love for Margot, who's unhappily married to Raleigh St.Clair
(Bill Murray) and Etheline's eccentric engagement to Henry Sherman (Danny
Glover), who wishes to marry her. The Royal Tenenbaums also co-stars Owen
Wilson and features narration provided by Alec Baldwin.
~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide


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