The Royal Tenenbaums (The Criterion Collection)

Buy This Item The Royal Tenenbaums (The Criterion Collection) by Touchstone Pictures  Available from Amazon  $16.99  on 8-29-2008     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. Reader Reviews If you know anything about Andersons' work, you either get it or you don't. There is no inbetween. It's not that his films are so out of touch with humanity that it's difficult for people to get. But it infact hits the heart of it so well, and Wes knows how to capture a moment in a way that's so different, but unstoppably honest, that it just comes down to the fact that it is not for everyone. Every element is so methodical, from the story itself, to the way it's shot, and the music giving a beautiful backdrop, that when one of his movies ends it leaves you wanting more. It leaves you wanting to continue to follow the characters lives and know more about what happens to them. And can I say, he sure knows how to pick a cast of actors that deliver ever single time. I hope you enjoy the film as much as me, and if not, that's o.k., just pass it on to someone else.

The Royal Tenenbaums (The Criterion Collection) Available from Amazon Price: $16.99 Updated on 8-29-2008.

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