The three Tenenbaum children are pushed to succeed at an early age and suffer in adulthood because of it. Royal lies about having a terminal illness in order to see his family. Margot, Richie, and ...

The Salinger influence is particularly strong, for the Tenenbaum siblings are a quirky, talented, neurotic lot. The source of their brittleness is Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman), their mercurial ...

Some may argue that there's nothing to feel sore about, Hackman having won both Best Actor and Supporting Actor over the years, but at 71 his performance in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' shows that he's ...

There's a hotel in Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums named The Lindbergh Palace. It put me in mind of the story about Dame May Whitty and Edna Mae Oliver, both movie stars in their heyday ...

First thing you need to know about these Tenenbaums is that they're not really royal. Old man Tenenbaum may go by the name of Royal (where do Americans get their first names from?), but that doesn ...

The Royal Tenenbaums is a remarkable film, with characters you'll want to revisit. Royal Tenenbaum (Hackman) and his wife Etheline (Houston) had three children Chas, Richie, and Margot.

Wes Anderson has cozied himself into a little niche of pop culture and the film industry as a filmmaker of hipsterfied auteur ...

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Reading about him, reminded me of a story I heard about a movie he was in called The Royal Tenenbaums, which featured a Cavan man in a debut acting role. For any actor, movies are an uncertain ...

Wes Anderson can always be relied on for eclectic stories featuring colorful characters. Anderson continues to introduce new quirky casts of oddball characters in movies like The Grand Budapest ...