Wes Anderthon: The Royal Tenenbaums + Quiz
Tickets: £5
Cast:
Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow, Luke Wilson
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Gene Hackman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller and Luke Wilson star in Wes Anderson’s glorious story of grand family dysfunction.
The late Gene Hackman leads a terrific cast in Wes Anderson’s dysfunctional family-of-geniuses drama – perhaps his most beloved film, and the one that formed a template for his glorious, precisely styled tragicomedies.
Hackman is patriarch Royal Tenenbaum, whose children with his estranged wife Etheline (Angelica Huston) were all prodigies – Chas (Ben Stiller) a preternaturally gifted international financier, Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow) a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright in high school and Richie (Luke Wilson) a junior champion tennis player. But virtually all memory of their brilliance has been erased by decades of betrayal and disaster – most of which is generally considered to be Royal’s fault. So the stage is set for their sudden, unexpected reunion one winter.
Get ready for The Phoenician Scheme (released Fri 23 May) with back-to-back screenings, and a whimsical quiz, exploring the wonderful world of Wes Anderson.
The quiz (1 hour approx.) will precede the screening.
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