About this event
We invite you to celebrate the remarkable career of Gene Hackman with a screening of The Royal Tenenbaums. Hackman, a versatile actor who graced the screen for nearly 50 years, captivated audiences across diverse genres. From roles in films like Superman and Crimson Tide to his Oscar-winning performances in The French Connection and Unforgiven, his legacy is undeniable.
In The Royal Tenenbaums, Hackman delivers an iconic performance as Royal Tenenbaum, the estranged patriarch of a once-extraordinary family. He and his wife, Etheline (Anjelica Huston), raised three prodigies: Chas (Ben Stiller), a precocious real estate mogul; Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow), a gifted playwright; and Richie (Luke Wilson), a tennis champion. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. The Royal Tenenbaums is a hilarious, touching, and brilliantly stylized study of melancholy and redemption from Wes Anderson.