The Royal Tenenbaums by Wes Anderson & Owen Wilson

MAIN CASTROYAL TENENBAUM Gene HackmanETHELINE TENENBAUM Anjelica HoustonCHAS TENENBAUM Ben Stiller MARGOT TENENBAUM Gwyneth PaltrowRICHIE TENENBAUM Luke WilsonELI CASH Owen WilsonHENRY SHERMAN Danny GloverRALEIGH ST. CLAIR Bill MurrayDUSTY Seymour CasselPAGODA Kumar Pallana NARRATOR Alec Baldwin ARI TENENBAUM Grant RosenmeyerUZI 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. Thetitle 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 histhirty-fifth year.CUT TO: A five-story limestone townhouse. A forty-three-year-old manin a raincoat rings the front doorbell. He is Royal. NARRATOR (CONT’D)Over the next decade, he and his wifehad three children and then theyseparated.INT. DINING ROOM. DAY.Royal sits at the head of a long table. He is surrounded byhis children.Chas is twelve, with curly hair, dressed in a black suit and tie. Margot is ten, with a barrette in her hair, wearing aknitted 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 isabout 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 lookgood.RICHIEDo you still love us?ROYALOf course, I do.CHAS(pointedly)Do you still love Mom?

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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 certainsacrifices as a result of havingchildren, but no. Lord, no.RICHIE Why’d she ask you to leave?ROYAL(sadly)I don’t really know any more. Maybe Iwasn’t as true to her as I could’ve been.CHAS Well, she says --ROYALLet’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 thekitchen with a Martini on a tray. He is Pagoda. NARRATOR (V.O.)They were never legally divorced.Pagoda hands Royal the Martini.ROYALThanks, Pagoda.INT. HALLWAY. DAY. A gallery of the children’s art, done mostly in crayon, butwith 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 hangsin the stairwell. A label on it says “Wild Javelina, Andes Mountains.” Under the stairs there is a telephone room thesize 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 neckand sunglasses on top of her head talks on a rotarytelephone. She is Etheline.