FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE wes Anderson - The Royal Tenenbaums 

New York looks like a fairytale and in one of the dreamy houses there live the Royal Tenenbaums. There are enough rooms for everyone. Everyone has his own private retreat area. Only the Patriarch Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) left the house years ago and has been living in a hotel ever since. On credit, as you learn. His wife Etheline (Anjelica Huston) has managed to turn all the children - Chas (Ben Stiller), Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow) and Richie (Luke Wilson) - into neurotics. Chas was a financial genius as a child. Margot won an award for a play. And Richie was a former tennis champion. He used to be. They, in turn, have various eccentric partners and friends. Such as the intellectual Clair (Bill Murray) or the neighbor Eli Cash (Owen Wilson), who writes terrible western books. Or Etheline's accountant Henry Sherman (Danny Glover), who then became a lover. And aren't such eccentrics almost always lonely deep in their hearts? Not so the Tenenbaums! Every family member is an extremely stable character. Even if Margot smokes secretly, although smoking would not be a problem at all with the Tenenbaums! But at least she has something to hide. Everything in The Royal Tenenbaums is half joking and half serious. This is because the movie respects its characters. After all, a Wes Anderson movie works according to the principle of reflecting on its very own emotions. These may only be shared by an absolute minority, namely the Royal Tenenbaums, but they are also to be respected. And so the movie follows its warm, gentle plot until the outrageous end...