The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

Release date: 2002-01-04
Country: USA
Language: English|Italian
Director: Wes Anderson
Production Co: Touchstone Pictures, American Empirical Pictures
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Rating: 7.6/10
Length: 1h 50min

Storyline

Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal had left them long ago, and comes back to make things right with his family.

Plot Keywords

family relationships, forbidden love, incest, brother sister incest, dysfunctional family, extramarital affair, father daughter relationship, brother brother relationship, lesbian kiss, mother daughter relationship, war paint, brother sister relationship, sex, father son relationship, bisexuality, attempted suicide, divorce, mother son relationship, severed finger, eccentricity

Short Review

This comedy-drama about a dysfunctional family of eccentric geniuses is exactly the kind of movie America could use. It's funny, poignant, laced with irresistibly flawed characters and focuses on the power of love in a family.