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...Tenenbaum kids are--or were--child geniuses, adept at playwriting (Paltrow), tennis (Wilson) and the stock market (Stiller). When we meet them, however, they are still overprotected by their mother (Huston) and have aged into various forms of hostile fecklessness. Director and co-writer (with Owen Wilson) Anderson has confessed admiration for J.D. Salinger's Glass family, and The Royal Tenenbaums can be seen as his take, more comic than tragic, on the costs of being smart in a world that resents intelligence as much as it pretends to admire...
...despite all his fame and glory, he still has one unfulfilled desire: To be a member of the Tenenbaum family. Growing up as the boy next door to the titular dysfunctional family, he still longs to be one of them even as his success seems to grow proportionally with their failures...
...heart, Tenenbaums is a tale of dreams deferred, faded genius and the redeeming value of family. The story begins with the union of Royal and Etheline Tenenbaum, parents to a trio of child geniuses: Chas, a child financial wizard who makes his fortune breeding dalmation mice; Richie “the Baumer” Tenenbaum, a teenage tennis champion; and Margot, a famous playwright who wins a Braverman Grant of $50,000 in the fourth grade. But following Royal and Etheline’s separation, two decades of betrayal, failure and disaster erase all trace of the children?...
...adult versions of the Tenenbaum children, Stiller, Paltrow and Wilson do fine jobs with their roles. Murray, so dryly funny in Rushmore, is given surprisingly little to do as Margot’s husband Raleigh St. Clair...
...Tenenbaum--a longtime proselytizer for online commerce, whose Enterprise Integration Technologies developed much of the technology that makes Web transactions possible--believes that XML offers nothing less than "the real possibility of fundamentally restructuring the way a given industry works." If you can get everyone in, say, the real estate business--the brokers, the escrow agents, the mortgage banks--to adopt XML, says Tenenbaum, "you really can start to think about changing the rules: paperless closings, real-time mortgage bidding...