Chez les Tenenbaum, les enfants ont toujours été des génies. Tout jeunes, Chas était déjà un maître de la finance, Margot une dramaturge exceptionnelle et Richie un joueur de tennis hors pair. Mais un jour, Etheline, leur mère, demande le divorce. Elle ne supporte plus le caractère égoïste de Royal Tenenbaum, son mari. Cette crise familiale a une influence négative sur le développement personnel de leurs progénitures.Vingt ans plus tard, Royal écume les palaces, Etheline s'adonne à l'archéologie, Chas tente d'élever ses deux fils après la mort de son épouse, Richie est un champion déchu et Margot s'est marié avec un psy. Le père Tenenbaum annonce bientôt à ses enfants qu'il ne lui reste plus longtemps à vivre. Il souhaite se réconcilier avec eux et les invite dans la maison familiale en prétextant une grave maladie.

Royal Tenenbaum (Unforgiven’s GENE HACKMAN) and his wife, Etheline (Prizzi’s Honor’s ANJELICA HUSTON) had three children—Chas, Margot, and Richie—and then they separated. Chas (Meet the Parents’ BEN STILLER) started buying real estate in his early teens and seemed to have an almost preternatural understanding of international finance. Margot (Shakespeare in Love’s GWYNETH PALTROW) was a playwright and received a Braverman Grant of $50,000 in the ninth grade. Richie (Rushmore’s 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 Royal Tenenbaums is a hilarious, touching, and brilliantly stylized study of melancholy and redemption from WES ANDERSON (The Darjeeling Limited).

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:

• Restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director Wes Anderson, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• Audio commentary by Wes Anderson
• With the Filmmaker: Portraits by Albert Maysles, featuring Wes Anderson
• Interviews with and behind-the-scenes footage of actors Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Bill Murray, and Danny Glover
• Outtakes
• The Peter Bradley Show, featuring interviews with additional cast members
• Scrapbook featuring young Richie’s murals and paintings, still photographs by set photographer
• James Hamilton, book and magazine covers, and storyboards
• Studio 360 radio segment on painter Miguel Calderón, along with examples of his work
• Trailers
• Insert with Eric Anderson’s drawings of the Tenenbaum house
• PLUS: An essay by film critic Kent Jones

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