The Royal Tenenbaums

Family isn't a word ... It's a sentence.
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Timing: 1:50 (110 min)

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$21 000 000
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$71 441 250
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Scott Rudin, Wes Anderson, Barry Mendel, Owen Wilson, Rudd Simmons
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David Wasco, Adam Scher, Douglas Huszti
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Short description

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.

What's left behind the scenes

  • The glasses worn by Huston's character in the film belonged to Anderson's mother.
  • The role of Royal Tenenbaum was written specifically for Gene Hackman by Anderson.
  • Notably, Brian's sister is named Margot, just like Gwyneth Paltrow's character.
  • Owen Wilson's character attends a wedding with Native American face paint. In the film "Zoolander" (2001), Wilson’s face in a photograph looks exactly the same.
  • Two different hawks "play" Mordechai. The first was kidnapped by some ill-wishers during filming to demand a ransom. The filmmakers, unable to wait for their "actor's" return, began filming another hawk, which, as is easy to see, has considerably more white feathers than its counterpart.
  • The surname of the main characters was borrowed by the screenwriters Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson from their college friend Brian Tenenbaum, who played one of the paramedics in the film.
  • J.D. Salinger’s "Glass Family" series features a character named Bubba Tenenbaum (Beatrice Glass, née Tenenbaum), and the "Tenenbaum Family" itself is practically a prototype of the Glass family, with similarly gifted and numerous children.
  • Anderson said he read in the book “From the Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, the Most Mysterious in the World” by Konigsburg how the book's characters Claudia and Jamie ran away and lived in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which inspired him to use this in the script.
  • The biography of Etheline Tenenbaum (Angelica Huston) incorporates some facts from Anderson's mother's life, who became an archaeologist after divorcing his father.
  • The character played by Danny Glover bears a strong resemblance to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Anderson decided to achieve this likeness after Glover, personally acquainted with Annan, introduced him to Anderson at an event.
  • The scene in which Margot loses a finger was originally written for Margaret Yang's character from Wes Anderson's previous film, "Rushmore".

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