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| | OFFOFFOFF film review THE ROYAL TENEBAUMS movie by Wes Anderson with Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Gwyneth Paltrow, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Gene Hackman plays Royal Tenenbaum, the patriarch of the family, who has been living in an exile imposed both by his children and his wife Etheline (Angelica Huston) for his numerous, egregiously bad habits over the years. |
 | | Anderson's characters are so gleefully serious in their behavior, either somehow oblivious or just incredibly comfortable with the hyperbole in their lives, that the actors in the film become free to elevate their performances and create real, somehow believable people out of totally dysfunctional characters. |
 | | Recalling "Rushmore's" yearbook sequence, Anderson starts the film off with an expanded, hilarious prologue introducing the young geniuses and documenting their rise to fame and the insane treatment they were afforded by their father. |
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