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Royal Tenenbaum's three children were once celebrated prodigies — a playwright, a tennis champion, a business savant — but adulthood has left them adrift, estranged from each other and from him. After announcing he is dying, Royal returns home in a bid to reconnect with the family he failed the first time around. Wes Anderson's most emotionally complex film is at once a precise exercise in style and a genuinely felt story about grief, regret, and the families we survive.
Chris Cook joins us to dig into Wes Anderson's most personal and melancholy film — a meditation on genius, failure, and what it means to belong to a family.
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