The Royal Tenenbaums
The Royal Tenenbaums is a 2001 film about a family of former child prodigies that reunites when their estranged father announces he has a terminal illness.
- Directed by Wes Anderson. Written by Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson
Family isn't a word. It's a sentence. TaglinesRoyal Tenenbaum
- I'm not talking about dance lessons. I'm talking about putting a brick through the other guy's windshield. I'm talking about taking it out and chopping it up.
- He looks pretty good for a suicide. Attempted, anyway.
- Hell of a damn grave. Wish it were mine.
Eli Cash
- Why would a reviewer make the point of saying someone's not a genius? Do you especially think I'm not a genius?
[Pause]
You didn't even have to think about it, did you?
- Well, everyone knows Custer died at Little Bighorn. What this book presupposes is... maybe he didn't?
- Wildcat was written in kind of an obsolete vernacular. Wildcat...pkow. Okay, I'm gonna go now.
- You're in love with Richie. Which is sick. And gross.
Others
- Pagoda: He got the cancer.
- Royal O'Reilly Tenenbaum (1932-2001) Died Tragically Rescuing His Family From The Wreckage Of A Destroyed Sinking Battleship
Dialogue
- Eli Cash: I'm not in love with you any more.
- Margot: I didn't think you ever were.
- Eli Cash: Let's not make this harder than it already is.
- Margot: OK.
- Eli Cash: OK what?
- Margot: OK, I'm not in love with you any more either.
- Eli Cash: I know. You're in love with Richie, which is sick and gross.
- Margot: Do you send my mother your clippings? And your grades in ---
- Eli Cash: Please stop belittling me. You never gave me the time of day until I started getting good reviews.
- Margot: The reviews aren't that good.
- Eli Cash: But the sales are.
- Eli Cash: I always wanted to be a Tenenbaum.
- Royal: Me too, me too.
- [Chas Tenenbaum and his sons enter his mother's house with several bags]
- Ethel: Chas? What's going on?
- Chas: We got locked out of our apartment.
- Ethel: Well, did you call a locksmith?
- Chas: Uh-huh.
- Ethel: Well, I don't understand. Did you pack your bags BEFORE you got locked out?
- Chas: It's not safe there.
- Ethel: What are you talking about?
- Chas: The apartment. I have to get some new sprinklers and a back-up security system installed.
- Ethel: But there are no sprinklers here either.
- Chas: We might have to do something about that too.
- Richie Tenenbaum: Read it back to me so far, Pietro.
- Radio Operator: Dear Eli, I'm in the middle of the ocean, I haven't left my room in four days, I've never been more lonely in my life and I think I'm in love with Margot.
- Richie Tenenbaum: New paragraph.
- Eli: I wish you'd've done this for me when I was a kid.
- Richie: But you didn't have a drug problem then.
- Eli: Yeah, but it still would've meant a lot to me.
- Royal: I'm dying, baby. I'm sick as a dog. I'll be dead in six weeks. I'm dying.
- Ethel: What are you talking about? What happened? Oh, my God. I'm sorry. I didn't know. What'd they say? What's the prognosis?
- Royal: Take it easy, Ethel. Hold on. Hold on.
- Ethel: Where's the doctor? Let's get -
- Royal: Wait a second. Listen. I'm not dying. But I need some time. A month. Maybe two. I want us to -
- Ethel: What's wrong with you?
- Royal: Ethel.
- Ethel: Go away!
- Royal: Baby. I am dying.
- Ethel: Are you or aren't you?
- Royal: Dying? Yes.
- Royal: Look, I know I'm gonna be the bad guy on this one. But I just wanna say the last six days have been the best six days of probably my whole life.
- Narrator: Immediately after making this statement, Royal realized that it was true.
- Richie: Did you just say you're on mescaline?
- Eli: I did indeed. Very much so.
Taglines
- Family isn't a word. It's a sentence.
- You are invited to a remarkable family gathering.
Cast
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