The Royal Tenenbaums

Members of the severely dysfunctional Tenenbaum family find it difficult to live both with and without each other in this comedy of fractured relationships from director Wes Anderson (Rushmore, Bottle Rocket). The three Tenenbaum siblings (Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller and Luke Wilson) and their long-estranged father Royal (Gene Hackman) all return home for reasons running from depression and destitution to psychotic behavior. The clan then sorts through family emotions, failures, disasters and betrayals in a wacky story that bumps up against one’s heart as often as it does one’s funny bone with music from Lennon and McCartney, the Clash, Elliott Smith, Nico and Ravel providing an abundance of mood and energy.