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In Honor of my birthday. August will be deemed the month of fabulous giveaways; including our month long DVD Madness.Throughout the month of August we will have several big DVD giveaways. Courtesy of the fine folks at Buena Vista Home Video, our first promotion out of the bat is The Royal Tenenbaums – Criterion Collection DVD.
To win this fabulous DVD simply click the link below and read the synopsis, and the contest directions carefully. This is the first of many cool giveaways throughout the month of August. So what’s wrong with this picture? Instead of me getting stuff to celebrate my big birthday, I’m giving away stuff. ![]()
Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children — Chas, Richie, and Margot — and then they separated. Chas started buying real estate in his early teens and seemed to have an almost preternatural understanding of international finance. Margot was a playwright and received a Braverman Grant of fifty thousand dollars in the ninth grade. Richie was a junior champion tennis player and won the U.S. Nationals three years in a row. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. Most of this was generally considered to be their father’s fault. “”The Royal Tenenbaums”” is the story of the family’s sudden, unexpected reunion one recent winter. Touchstone Pictures presents an American Empirical Picture, “”The Royal Tenenbaums,”” directed by Wes Anderson (“”Bottle Rocket,”” “”Rushmore””) from a screenplay written by Anderson and his writing partner Owen Wilson. The cast includes Danny Glover, Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Bill Murray, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller, Luke Wilson, and Owen Wilson. The film was produced by Anderson, Barry Mendel (“”Rushmore,”” “”The Sixth Sense””) and Scott Rudin (“”Wonder Boys,”” “”Searching For Bobby Fischer””) and distributed by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution. The screenplay for “”The Royal Tenenbaums”” evolved over the course of a year. “”We had the idea of a family of geniuses, each member being exceptional and adept at a particular skill,”” Anderson says. “”But family life was so awful that it left each of the children as they grew older particularly ill suited to deal with any of the problems that most people are able to handle. “”We had a good idea of the characters and who they were long before there was any story. I’ve never had a movie where it started with a plot, but the characters gave us a plot and sort of took over… Royal was not the main character at the beginning, everybody had this malaise and were swirling around each other when that character came in and took over because he made things happen in the story.”” When Royal is evicted from the Lindbergh Palace Hotel and shows up on the Tenenbaum doorstep claiming a terminal illness and a desire to regain a relationship with his family, he sets the plot in motion. “”Ultimately, I think Royal does want his family back,”” Anderson says. “”He’s reached an age where he starts to realize that there’s something he can’t get anywhere else that his family provides for him.”” Ben Stiller points out, “”Royal’s not honest with his family about why he’s coming home – he says he’s sick, when he’s not – but I think that down on some gut level, one that he might not even acknowledge, he feels that he is sick, and that this is his last chance to try to make amends.”” “”What the story says is that even though everyone goes through hell with their family, still–as corny as it sounds–farnily members are still the ones you have to be close to, and really the only ones who will understand what you’re going through. We don’t balk at showing some of the rough stuff families endure, but we show in the end that it’s worth it,”” Owen Wilson says. Watch The Trailer
PURCHASE THE DVD IN OUR STOREDVD Release Information:Studio: Buena Vista Home VideoTheatrical Release Date: December 14, 2001DVD Release Date: July 9, 2002Run Time: 109 minutesProduction Company: Buena Vista Home VideoPackage Type: Keep CaseAspect Ratio(s):Widescreen anamorphic – 2.40:1Discographic Information:DVD Encoding: Region 1Layers: DualAvailable Audio Tracks: English (DTS), English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)Available subtitles: EnglishEdition Details: