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The Royal Tenenbaums Script Overview

The document provides a summary of the film The Royal Tenenbaums directed by Wes Anderson. It lists the main cast and their characters. It then provides an excerpt from the script describing the Tenenbaum family having dinner where Royal tells his children he has moved out at their mother Etheline's request, though they were never formally divorced. The summary establishes the central family at the heart of the film and sets up Royal's separation from his wife.

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The Royal Tenenbaums Script Overview

The document provides a summary of the film The Royal Tenenbaums directed by Wes Anderson. It lists the main cast and their characters. It then provides an excerpt from the script describing the Tenenbaum family having dinner where Royal tells his children he has moved out at their mother Etheline's request, though they were never formally divorced. The summary establishes the central family at the heart of the film and sets up Royal's separation from his wife.

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The Royal Tenenbaums

by

Wes Anderson & Owen Wilson

MAIN CAST

ROYAL TENENBAUM Gene Hackman

ETHELINE TENENBAUM Anjelica Houston

CHAS TENENBAUM Ben Stiller

MARGOT TENENBAUM Gwyneth Paltrow

RICHIE TENENBAUM Luke Wilson

ELI CASH Owen Wilson

HENRY SHERMAN Danny Glover

RALEIGH ST. CLAIR Bill Murray

DUSTY Seymour Cassel

PAGODA Kumar Pallana

NARRATOR Alec Baldwin

ARI TENENBAUM Grant Rosenmeyer

UZI TENENBAUM Jonah Meyerson


INSERT:
A first edition copy of The Royal Tenenbaums.

On the dust jacket there is an illustration of a cream-


colored note card that looks like a wedding invitation. The
title of the book is engraved on the card.

The next page says ““Chapter One.””


NARRATOR (V.O.)
Royal Tenenbaum bought the house on
Archer Avenue in the winter of his
thirty-fifth year.
CUT TO:

A five-story limestone townhouse. A forty-three-year-old man


in a raincoat rings the front doorbell. He is Royal.
NARRATOR (CONT’’D)
Over the next decade, he and his wife
had three children and then they
separated.
INT. DINING ROOM. DAY.
Royal sits at the head of a long table. He is surrounded by
his children.
Chas is twelve, with curly hair, dressed in a black suit and
tie. Margot is ten, with a barrette in her hair, wearing a
knitted LaCoste dress and penny loafers. Richie is eight,
with long hair, parted on the side, dressed in a Bjorn Borg-
style tennis outfit with a headband.
Chas wears a blank expression, Margot looks as if she is
about to cry, and Richie has tears all over his face.
MARGOT
Are you getting divorced?

ROYAL
(gently)
At the moment, no. But it doesn’’t look
good.

RICHIE
Do you still love us?

ROYAL
Of course, I do.
CHAS
(pointedly)
Do you still love Mom?

(CONTINUED)
2.
CONTINUED:

ROYAL
Very much. But she asked me to leave,
and I had to respect her position on the
matter.
MARGOT
Was it our fault?

ROYAL
(long pause)
No. Obviously, we had to make certain
sacrifices as a result of having
children, but no. Lord, no.
RICHIE
Why’’d she ask you to leave?
ROYAL
(sadly)
I don’’t really know any more. Maybe I
wasn’’t as true to her as I could’’ve
been.
CHAS
Well, she says --
ROYAL
Let’’s not rehash it, Chassie.
An Indian man with salt-and-pepper hair, dressed in pink
pants, a white shirt and a white apron, comes in from the
kitchen with a Martini on a tray. He is Pagoda.
NARRATOR (V.O.)
They were never legally divorced.
Pagoda hands Royal the Martini.
ROYAL
Thanks, Pagoda.

INT. HALLWAY. DAY.


A gallery of the children’’s art, done mostly in crayon, but
with beautiful frames and careful lighting. The subject
matter includes: spaceships, wild animals, sailboats,
motorcycles, and war scenes with tanks and paratroopers.
A stuffed and mounted boar’’s head with its teeth bared hangs
in the stairwell. A label on it says ““Wild Javelina, Andes
Mountains.”” Under the stairs there is a telephone room the
size of a closet. Old messages are tacked to the walls, and
the children’’s heights are marked on the door frame.

A thirty-three-year-old woman with a scarf around her neck


and sunglasses on top of her head talks on a rotary
telephone. She is Etheline.

(CONTINUED)

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