The Royal Tenenbaums
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 Royal Tenenbaums is a hilarious, touching, and brilliantly stylized study of melancholy and redemption from Wes Anderson.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New, restored digital transfer, supervised by director Wes Anderson, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- Audio commentary by Anderson
- With The Filmmaker: Portraits By Albert Maysles, featuring Anderson
- Interviews with and behind-the-scenes footage of actors Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Bill Murray, and Danny Glover
- Outtakes
- The Peter Bradley Show, featuring interviews with additional cast members
- Scrapbook featuring young Richie’s murals and paintings, still photographs by set photographer James Hamilton, book and magazine covers, and storyboards
- Studio 360 radio segment on painter Miguel Calderón, along with examples of his work
- Trailers
- Collectible insert with Eric Anderson’s drawings
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Kent Jones
New cover by Eric Chase Anderson
DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New, restored digital transfer, supervised by director Wes Anderson, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- Audio commentary by Anderson
- With The Filmmaker: Portraits By Albert Maysles, featuring Anderson
- Interviews with and behind-the-scenes footage of actors Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Bill Murray, and Danny Glover
- Outtakes
- The Peter Bradley Show, featuring interviews with additional cast members
- Scrapbook featuring young Richie’s murals and paintings, still photographs by set photographer James Hamilton, book and magazine covers, and storyboards
- Studio 360 radio segment on painter Miguel Calderón, along with examples of his work
- Trailers
- Collectible insert with Eric Anderson’s drawings
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Kent Jones
New cover by Eric Chase Anderson
Cast
- Gene Hackman
- Royal Tenenbaum
- Anjelica Huston
- Etheline Tenenbaum
- Ben Stiller
- Chas Tenenbaum
- Gwyneth Paltrow
- Margot Tenenbaum
- Luke Wilson
- Richie Tenenbaum
- Owen Wilson
- Eli Cash
- Bill Murray
- Raleigh St. Clair
- Danny Glover
- Henry Sherman
- Seymour Cassel
- Dusty
- Kumar Pallana
- Pagoda
- Alec Baldwin
- Narrator
Credits
- Director
- Wes Anderson
- Screenplay
- Wes Anderson
- Producer
- Wes Anderson
- Cinematography
- Robert Yeoman
- Producer
- Scott Rudin
- Producer
- Barry Mendel
- Screenplay
- Owen Wilson
- Executive producers
- Rudd Simmons
- Executive producers
- Owen Wilson
- Production design
- David Wasco
- Editing
- Dylan Tichenor
- Costume design
- Karen Patch
- Music
- Mark Mothersbaugh
- Music supervisor
- Randall Poster
- Casting
- Douglas Aibel
- Unit production manager
- Denise Pinckley
- First assistant director
- Sam Hoffman
- Second assistant director
- Michelle L. Keiser
- Additional editing
- Daniel R. Padgett
- Key set decorator
- Sandy Reynolds Wasco
- Richie's artwork & original illustrations
- Eric Chase Anderson
- Associate producer
- Will Sweeney
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