The Royal Tenenbaums

Film Info

United States
2001
110 minutes
Color
2.35:1
English
Spine #157

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 Royal Tenenbaums is a hilarious, touching, and brilliantly stylized study of melancholy and redemption from Wes Anderson.

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

Restored digital transfer, supervised by director Wes Anderson, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
Audio commentary by Anderson
With the Filmmaker: Portraits by Albert Maysles, featuring Anderson
Interviews with and behind-the-scenes footage of actors 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
Scrapbook featuring young Richie’s murals and paintings, still photographs by set photographer James Hamilton, book and magazine covers, and storyboards
Studio 360 radio segment on painter Miguel Calderón, along with examples of his work
Trailers
Collectible insert with Eric Anderson’s drawings
PLUS: A new essay by film critic Kent Jones