The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) - The Criterion Collection

Synopsis

Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) and his wife Etheline (Anjelica Huston) had three children—Chas, Margot, and Richie—and then they separated. Chas (Ben Stiller) started buying real estate in his early teens and seemed to have an almost preternatural understanding of international finance. Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow) was a playwright and received a Braverman Grant of $50,000 in the ninth grade. Richie (Luke Wilson) was a junior champion tennis player and won the U.S. Nationals three years in a row. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. The Criterion Collection is proud to present Wes Anderson’s hilarious, touching, and brilliantly stylized study of melancholy and redemption.

Cast

Royal Tenenbaum	Gene Hackman
Etheline Tenenbaum	Anjelica Huston
Chas Tenenbaum	Ben Stiller
Margot Tenenbaum	Gwyneth Paltrow
Richie Tenenbaum	Luke Wilson
Eli Cash	Owen Wilson
Raleigh St. Clair	Bill Murray
Henry Sherman	Danny Glover
Dusty	Seymour Cassel
Pagoda	Kumar Pallana
Narrator	Alec Baldwin

Credits

Director	Wes Anderson
Screenplay	Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson
Producer	Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin and Barry Mendel
Cinematography	Robert Yeoman
Executive producers	Rudd Simmons and Owen Wilson
Production Design	David Wasco
Editing	Dylan Tichenor
Costume design	Karen Patch
Music	Mark Mothersbaugh
Music supervisor	Randall Poster
Casting	Douglas Aibel
Unit production manager	Denise Pinckley
First assistant director	Sam Hoffman
Second assistant director	Michelle L. Keiser
Additional editing	Daniel R. Padgett
Key set decorator	Sandy Reynolds Wasco
Richie's artwork & original illustrations	Eric Chase Anderson
Associate producer	Will Sweeney

Disc Features

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET

Special slipcase/box packaging featuring Richard Avedon’s cast photo, plus cover artwork by Eric Anderson
New widescreen digital transfer, supervised by director Wes Anderson and enhanced for widescreen televisions
Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 soundtracks
Commentary by Wes Anderson
With the Filmmaker: Portraits by Albert Maysles, featuring Wes Anderson
Exclusive video interviews and behind-the-scenes footage of Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Bill Murray, and Danny Glover
Outtakes
The Peter Bradley Show, featuring interviews with additional cast members
The Art of the Movie: Young Richie’s murals and paintings, still photographs by set photographer James Hamilton, book and magazine covers, Studio 360 radio segment on painter Miguel Calderón, and storyboards
Theatrical trailers
Collectible insert including Eric Anderson’s drawings
English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired
Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition

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