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Actors: Gene Hackman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Seymour Cassel, Bill Murray, Danny Glover
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Royal Tenenbaums |
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In this comedy two adults have three children. As time goes by the three children grow older and move out, the parents also separate. Now 22 years later the kids return and the father tells them that he is dying. However, the kids haven't forgiven their father for neglecting them. They then try to forgive and forget as they try to make amends.
--Jack Bauer, Resident Scholar
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When the self-centered patriarch of a long estranged family of former child prodigies announces he is terminally ill, the clan is dragged back together by his wish to make things right. Hackman is deliciously wonderful as the deluded, mendacious, but well-meaning father. Paltrow acts very much against type as a near-catatonic former playwright. Stiller plays the angry, widowed business whiz and Luke Wilson is the burned-out tennis star weighted down by a tremendous secret. Real-life brother Owen Wilson (who coauthored the screenplay with director Wes Anderson and incidentally appears with Hackman in "Behind Enemy Lines") plays the boy from across the street who always wanted to be a Tanenbaum and has turned out to be a lousy cowboy novelist. Rounding out the cast are Huston as the classy mother of the brood and Glover as her patient accountant-suitor. Alec Baldwin provides unobtrusive narration. The story is offbeat, very much in the spirit of Anderson and the Wilsons' previous projects ("Bottle Rocket" and "Rushmore"), but with more color and depth. Hackman truly is magnificent, and the rest of the cast seems to have had a lot of fun.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Royal Tenenbaums |
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Plot
Comedy, primarily
Yes
Time/era of movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Family, struggling with
Yes
Struggle with:
- Father
Inner struggle or disability
Yes
Kind of comedy
- adults acting eccentric
How much humor v. drama
- Lot of humor, but significant serious drama
Coping with loss of loved one?
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- unemployed
Age:
- 60's-90's
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
- deluded
Hair color?
- white
Hair type
- (man) short/standard curly
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard curly
Body type
- (man) average build
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- general circumstances
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 90%-100%
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
- resort/hotel
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- full of laughter
- thoughtful
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- seeing breasts
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Classic/oldies rock
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