The Royal Tenenbaums

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Showing as part of Intentionally Wes Anderson – a retrospective celebrating one of cinema's most beloved filmmakers, ahead of his latest film, The Phoenician Scheme, showing at HPPH from Fri 23 May. 

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The Tenenbaums are a talented family of former child prodigies. However, they are not on the best of terms. When their ailing father summons them all, they find themselves under one roof.

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. 

On Bank Holiday Monday (5th May), The Royal Tenenbaums will be screening as part of a double-bill alongside Rushmore. Individual tickets are required for both screenings.