The Royal Tenenbaums

Eccentric drama about a family of former child prodigies and the estranged father who wants to reconcile with them.

That's comforting: even geniuses have the same everyday worries as you and me. The Tenenbaums, a truly bizarre family clan, have both: All the children have unusual talents and deeply human problems. After years on an ego trip, patriarch Royal Tenenbaum returns to the bosom of the family and finds not geniuses but decidedly eccentric contemporaries. In addition to Gene Hackman as Royal, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow and Bill Murray shine in Wes Anderson's brilliant ensemble comedy.
Royal Tenenbaum loved himself more than anyone else. When he wants to live with his family again after years, because cancer leaves him little time, the whole disaster of his evasion of responsibility reveals itself to him. For his wife wants a divorce and his children break under the pressure of not having kept the promise of early genius.
When bon vivant and egoist Royal Tenenbaum runs out of money, he has to simulate a fatal illness in order to be allowed to move in again with his wife E...

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