The Royal Tenenbaums (The Criterion Collection) |  | Director: Wes Anderson
Actors: Owen Wilson, Ben Stiller, Luke Wilson, Gene Hackman, Gwyneth Paltrow
Studio: Touchstone Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  653 reviews
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Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 110 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 1
MPN: DISD24022D
Model: 157
UPC: 786936165425
EAN: 0786936165425
ASIN: B0000640VJ
Theatrical Release Date: December 14, 2001
Release Date: July 9, 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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In a fitting follow-up to Rushmore, writer-director Wes Anderson and cowriter-actor Owen Wilson have crafted another comedic masterwork that ripples with inventive, richly emotional substance. Because of the all-star cast, hilarious dialogue, and oddball characters existing in their own, wholly original universe, it's easy to miss the depth and complexity of Anderson's brand of comedy. Here, it revolves around Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman), the errant patriarch of a dysfunctional family of geniuses, including precocious playwright Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow), boyish financier and grieving widower Chas (Ben Stiller), and has-been tennis pro Richie (Luke Wilson). All were raised with supportive detachment by mother Etheline (Anjelica Huston), and all ache profoundly for a togetherness they never really had. The Tenenbaums reconcile somehow, but only after Anderson and Wilson (who costars as a loopy literary celebrity) put them through a compassionate series of quirky confrontations and rekindled affections. Not for every taste, but this is brilliant work from any perspective. --Jeff Shannon
Product Description
THE TENENBAUM KIDS WERE ALL ONCE CHILD PRODIGIES, DESPITE GROWING UP WITH AN INEFFECTIVE FATHER. DETERMINED TO MAKE THINGS RIGHT THAT HE HAS A ESTRANGED FAMILY. ROYAL TENENBAUM ANNOUNCES YEARS LATER THAT HE HAS A TERMINAL ILLNESS AND MOVES BACK INTO HIS WIFE'S HOUSE WHERE THEIR CHILDREN ARE ALSO LIVING.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 653
 THE ROYAL BOREDOM December 30, 2009
Scott K. Sokol (new york city)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
GOOD FORTUNE DID NOT SHINE ON ME THE NIGHT I SAW THIS MOVIE.
I CHOSE THIS FILM BECAUSE THE FILM I WANTED TO SEE WAS SOLD OUT.
AT LEAST I WAS ABLE TO ADD ANOTHER NOTCH IN MY BELT OF WORST
MOVIES EVER MADE. THE DIRECTOR AND THE CAST ASIDE, EXTRAORDINARY
FILMS ARE SUCH BECAUSE OF EXTRAORDINARY SCRIPTS, TO WIT:THE SWEET SMELL
OF SUCCESS. NO SUCH LUCK HERE. THE STORY WAS NEITHER COMEDIC,TRAGIC,
ENLIGHTENING, NOR INCISIVE. WITH THIS ALBATROSS OF A SCRIPT,
THE FILM'S FAILURE WAS PREDESTINED. I SELDOM WALK OUT OF A THEATER
DURING A FILM BUT THIS MONSTROSITY PROVIDED THE IMPETUS NEEDED TO
GO SCREAMING INTO THE NIGHT. IT TAKES A BRAVE PERSON
TO RETURN TO THE MOVIES AFTER THIS FAILED EFFORT.
 Classic Wes Anderson December 3, 2009
Paul
Recieved the day that he stated it would be here, came in great condition. Excellent movie.
top 10 October 6, 2009
Holland Crosby (Fremont, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Royal Tenenbaums has to be one of my favorite movies ever. This is one of those that always makes me laugh yet has a great drama tone to it too. I have watched it too many times to count and yet never get tired of it. I guess I am a Wes fan though because it seems people either hate or love his movies, and I love them!
Tell me a story. . . August 26, 2009
Crabby Old Lady (North Carolina)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Tell me a story...
The Royal Tenenbaums is a film that could have started out as a book, one of
those books, like Harry Potter, that has illustrations so that you can imagine the characters mostly for yourself, with a bit of help from the author.
As the story is not in fact from a book, I am going to say that it is like a snow globe, a tiny universe that makes sense if you press your nose up against the glass and squint.
Without the narrator (Alec Baldwin), you would be completely lost. Some people are completely lost anyway, given the number of factual errors that occur in the reviews printed here.
A brief summary: The story starts with all of the Tenenbaum children, who appear to be in their thirties, moving back to their mother's home, a castle-sized house located somewhere in New York. Explanations are skimpy for this at best. At the same time, across town, their father, estranged from the family for years, needs a free place to stay.
So, for the first time in 18 years, all of the Tenenbaums are together under one roof.
The mood of the film varies like the weather. Sometimes it is beautiful and sunny; sometimes it is grey and snowing.
Flashback to 18 years ago: Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) is a successful litigator, his wife, Etheline (Angelica Huston) an anthropologist, the three children are prodigies:
Ritchie (Luke Wilson), a tennis champion
Chas (Ben Stiller), a wizard at business
Adopted daughter Margot (Gweneth Paltrow), a successful playwright
The marriage breaks up, the children grow up but not well, Etheline dates but does not remarry, in fact, she and Royal are still not divorced.
What little action there is seems to be spurred by Etheline's deciding to get married again (to her accountant, played hesitantly by Danny Glover). Royal's competitive juices, so long dormant, are revived, and he stages a play for Etheline's love and sympathy by pretending to be dying of cancer (despite eating a lot of cheeseburgers).
The deus ex machina, that moves the story along to completion, is provided by a family friend called Eli Cash (Owen Wilson), who is presented as a drug-addicted novelist but who is really addicted to the Tenenbaum family.
In contrast to the narrator, who gives a perfectly flat delivery, the music functions as a barometer of affect for each scene.
Don't expect to get it all the first time; pick up this snow globe and give it another shake.
The Royal Tenebaums August 5, 2009
Susan Hunter
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Another "strange" movie for you collection- a must have. This movie has the younger version of all these actors, it's really a good movie about the Tenebaum family and the disfuction of family life.
Brilliant & entertaining.
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