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| The Royal Tenenbaums |
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| Originally released: 2001 |
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Wes Anderson's bittersweet, achingly moving comedy has Hackman as the
wayward patriarch of a family of precocious geniuses - financial
whizz-kid Stiller, playwright Paltrow, and tennis champ Wilson -
who've fallen on hard times. Desperate to regain the affections of his
estranged wife (Huston) and children, he pretends to be terminally
ill, and tries to rebuild the family with charm, lies and downright
skullduggery. Anderson's sensibility, on the razor's edge of comedy
and tragedy, isn't for everyone, but it's like nothing else in cinema,
and this is its most magical expression yet.
SF Said
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