The Royal Tenenbaums

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  • Opened October 5, 2001 
  • 1 hr 48 min
  • R | Nudity, Drug Content, Sexuality and Some Language

  • Parents: Common Sense Media says Iffy for 15+. More on child suitability

  • Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. Most of this was generally considered to be their father's fault. "The Royal Tenenbaums" is the story of the family's sudden, unexpected reunion one recent winter. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow, Luke Wilson
  • Director: Wes Anderson
  • Genres: Comedy

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New York Post
| Lou Lumenick

You'll laugh, you'll cry -- the year's best movie. Read full review

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Rolling Stone
| Peter Travers

Anderson offers no phony uplift for the Tenenbaums or for audiences. But he does know how to take a sad song and make it better. In these troubled times, that's a gift. Read full review

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New York Daily News
| Jack Mathews

The performances are all terrific, but Gene Hackman is close to a career best as the family patriarch Royal, the most useless man you can't help loving. Read full review

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Philadelphia Inquirer
| Steven Rea

A devastatingly funny portrait of a wildly dysfunctional clan, Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums is a movie about how people never really mature in ways that matter. Read full review

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Gwyneth Paltrow (left) and Gene Hackman (right) in Touchstone Pictures' comedy "The Royal Tenenbaums."