Origin: U.S. (American Empirical, Touchstone) 2001Length: 109 minutes
Format: Technicolor
Director: Wes Anderson
Producer: Wes Anderson, Barry Mendel, Scott Rudin
Screenplay: Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson
Photography: Robert D. Yeoman
Music: Mark Mothersbaugh
Cast: Alec Baldwin, Seymour Cassel, Danny Glover, Gene Hackman, Anjelica Houston, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Bill Murray, Kumar Pallana, Luke Wilson, Grant Rosenmeyer, Jonah Meyerson, Aram Aslanian-Persico, Irene Gorovaia
Oscar Nomination: Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson(screenplay)
Berlin International Film Festival: Wes Anderson(Golden Bear nomination)
Links: Royal Tenenbaums Trailer, Royal Tenenbaums Wiki, Berlin Film Festival Wiki
Clearly inspired by back issues of The New Yorker magazine, with a streak of arch whimsy running through it, Wes Anderson's ensemble piece The Royal Tenenbaums did not disappoint fans of his two previous films, Bottle Rocket(1996) and Rushmore(1998). Decorated with Edward Gorey-like drawings and narrated by a deadpan Alec Baldwin, this oddball fantasy hangs on the mannered performances of a stellar cast. With a script that's laden with visual gags(characters are outfitted in adult versions of the clothes they wore as children, guns go off comically, and a droll stabbing takes place) and nifty, oblique quips, the straightforward emotional content is virtually nil. Despite its flaws, Anderson has yet again come up with a fresh take on the dysfunctional-family-as-comedy genre. Based on a nonexistent book, the script earned Academy Award nominations for Anderson and his co-writer Owen Wilson. Wilson also costars, but not as one of the Tenenbaum brothers, even though his real-life brother Luke plays a Tenenbaum, yet another askew aspect of an elliptical movie.
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