The Royal Tenenbaums
Tragicomedy by Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel) starring Gene Hackman – in his last major role before his acting retirement – as the pater familias of the eccentric Tenenbaum family.
Royal Tenenbaum, a lawyer, and his wife, Etheline, have three children – Chas, Margot, and Richie. When Royal is suspended, he decides to leave his family. The loving mother has to continue guiding the promising children towards a successful life. Chas started buying real estate in his early teens and seemed to have an almost preternatural understanding of international finance. Margot was a playwright and received a Braverman Grant of $50,000 in the ninth grade. Richie was a junior champion tennis player and won the U.S. Nationals three years in a row. However, 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. With a leading role for Gene Hackman as the lying, cheating, pathetic but at the same time oh-so-charming father.