Storyline
Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. Most of this was generally considered to be their father's fault. "The Royal Tenenbaums" is the story of the family's sudden, unexpected reunion one recent winter.
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Cast
Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow, Owen Wilson, Anjelica Huston, Frank Wood, Bill Murray, Wes Anderson, Alec Baldwin, Seymour Cassel, Kumar Pallana, Saidah Arrika Ekulona, Danny Glover, Luke Wilson, Andrew Wilson, Irene Gorovaia, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Rony Clanton, Gene Hackman, Greg Goossen, Peter Leung, Larry Pine, Eric Chase Anderson, Pawel Wdowczak, Al Thompson, Jonah Meyerson, Kalani Queypo, Grant Rosenmeyer, Aram Aslanian-Persico, Amedeo Turturro, Stephen Lea Sheppard, James Fitzgerald, Don McKinnon, Jennifer Wachtell, Donal Lardner Ward, Dipak Pallana, Sanjay Mathew, Mary Wigmore, Sonam Wangmo, Gita Gabriel, William Sturgis, Liam Craig, Sheelagh Tellerday, Max Faugno, Guido Venitucci, Brian Smiar, Jan Austell, Salim Malik, Tom Lacy, Keith Charles, Vic Mata, Michael Conti, Tatiana Abbey, Mel Cannon, Leo Manuelian, Amir Raissi, Roger Shamas, Philip Denning, Gary Evans, Rex Robbins, Nova Landaeus-Skinnar, Sam Hoffman, Brian Tenenbaum, Stephen Dignan
Trailer
Reviews
90
Rolling Stone
Anderson offers no phony uplift for the Tenenbaums or for audiences. But he does know how to take a sad song and make it better. In these troubled times, that's a gift.
88
New York Daily News
The performances are all terrific, but Gene Hackman is close to a career best as the family patriarch Royal, the most useless man you can't help loving.
80
Washington Post
It's a B+, not an A. This would be enough for most filmmakers. But Anderson must contend with a higher standard. It's his fault for being original.
80
Chicago Reader
Far and away the funniest comedy in town.
80
Variety
Underachieves in its own way by trapping an expansive, probing story in a brittle, highly artificial style that constricts character and emotional development.
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