The Royal Tenenbaums (DVD)

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. The Criterion Collection is proud to present Wes Anderson's hilarious, touching, and brilliantly stylized study of melancholy and redemption.

Starring: Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Stephen Lee Sheppard, Bill Murray, Danny Glover, Seymour Cassel, Kumar Pallana, Grant Rosenmeyer, Jonah Meyerson, Larry Pine, Frank Wood, Al Thompson, Donald Lardner Ward, Andrew Wilson, Mary Wigmore, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Brian Smiar, Rony Clanton, Tom Lacy, Greg Goossen, Rex Robbins, Brian Tenenbaum, Eric Chase Anderson, Alec Baldwin, William Sturgis, Roger Shamas

Director: Barry Mendel, Jay Stern, Roger Birnbaum, Scott Rudin, Wes Anderson

Rating: R