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The Royal Tenenbaums is the 2001 dramatic comedy about three genius siblings who experience great success in youth, and even greater disappointment and failure after their eccentric father leaves them in their adolescent years. A largely off-beat, ironic, absurdist sense of humor pervades the entire film. As with all of director Wes Anderson's work, the tone of the film is one of hilarious tragedy and revels in the small joys of conversation and camaraderie. This work is copyrighted. ...
Wesley Wales Anderson (born May 1, 1969) is an American writer, producer, and director of films and commercials. ...
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Eugene Allen Gene Hackman[1] (born January 30, 1930) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actor. ...
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The film features an ensemble cast, including Anjelica Huston as Etheline Tenenbaum, Owen Wilson as Eli Cash, Luke Wilson as Richie Tenenbaum, Ben Stiller as Chas Tenenbaum, Gwyneth Paltrow as Margot Tenenbaum, Danny Glover as Henry Sherman, Gene Hackman as Royal Tenenbaum and Bill Murray as Raleigh St. Clair. Alec Baldwin narrates. Anjelica Huston (born July 8, 1951) is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning American actress and former fashion model. ...
Owen Cunningham Wilson (born November 18, 1968) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor and writer. ...
Luke Cunningham Wilson (born September 21, 1971) is an American film actor. ...
Benjamin Edward Stiller (born November 30, 1965) is an Emmy-winning American comedian, actor, film producer and director. ...
Gwyneth Kate Paltrow (born September 27, 1972[1]) is an Academy Award-winning American actress and singer. ...
Danny Lebern Glover[1] (born July 22, 1946) is an American actor, film director, and political activist. ...
Eugene Allen Gene Hackman[1] (born January 30, 1930) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actor. ...
William James Bill Murray (born September 21, 1950) is an Academy Award-nominated, Emmy-winning and Golden Globe-winning American comedian and actor. ...
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Gene Hackman won a Golden Globe for his performance and Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson's screenplay was nominated for an Academy Award. The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ...
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Plot
The movie begins at the point where Royal Tenenbaum is explaining to his three children Chas, Margot (who is actually adopted), and Richie that he and his wife, Etheline will soon separate. The scene then evolves into a short explanation of each of the Tenenbaum's lives. Each begins success at a very young age. Chas is a math and business genius who creates a business in his teens selling specially mutated "dalmatian" mice to dealers in Little Tokyo. He also has money stolen from his personal safety deposit box by Royal. Margot is awarded a $50,000 Braverman grant for one of her plays that she wrote at a very young age. She invites Royal to a birthday party where her first play will be shown, and Royal tells her the plot is "just not believable". Richie is a tennis prodigy, but is not artistically or mathematically gifted. He expresses his love for his adopted sister, Margot, through many paintings and also camps out in the African wing of the public archives, sharing a sleeping bag with her. Royal takes him on regular outings to dogfights, to which neither of the other children are invited. Eli Cash is the Tenenbaum's neighbor, and he makes himself one of Richie's best friends. Richie also has a pet hawk named Mordecai, which takes flight at the end of this montage, leading into the movie proper. Japantown is a common name for Japanese-American or Japanese-Canadian communities in big cities. ...
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The action then skips ahead 22 years. Royal is kicked out of the hotel he had been living in for the past 22 years. All three of the Tenenbaum children are in a post-success slump. Richie is traveling all over the planet in a boat following a breakdown at a tennis match, presumably hiding from the world. He writes a letter to Eli saying that he loves Margot. Chas has become extremely overprotective of his two children, Ari and Uzi, following his wife's tragic death in a plane crash. Margot is married to a neurologist named Raleigh St. Clair, but soaks in a bathtub six hours a day. She hides her smoking habit, along with most of her past from her husband. Raleigh performs tests on Dudley Heinsbergen, researching a strange disorder he calls Heinsbergen syndrome. It involves elements of "Amnesia, dyslexia, color blindness, and an extremely acute sense of hearing." The movie then cuts to Etheline's situation. Her accountant, Henry Sherman, proposes to her. For other uses, see Boat (disambiguation). ...
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Being kicked out onto the street, broke, homeless, and given the news that his wife, Etheline, is falling in love with her accountant, Royal tells Etheline that he has stomach cancer. Etheline calls each of the Tenenbaum children, the first time they have been together in 22 years. As soon as they meet, Royal discovers that things are very wrong in each of the children's lives. Chas has harbored hate against him for shooting him in the hand with a BB gun as a child (among other reasons). To Chas's dismay, Royal moves into the old house and sets up a large amount of medical equipment in Richie's room. Royal discovers that Chas is ridiculously overprotective of his children. He then decides to "breed a little recklessness" into Ari and Uzi. He takes them to a pool, horse riding, go karts around town, shoplifting a convenience store, throwing water balloons at cars and riding on the back of a garbage truck. When he gets back, Chas takes him into a closet and starts yelling at him for putting his kids in harms way. When Royal shouts out, "I think you're having a nervous breakdown!" Chas steps out of the closet to avoid breaking his chain of denial. Stomach cancer (also called gastric cancer) can develop in any part of the stomach and may spread throughout the stomach and to other organs; particularly the esophagus and the small intestine. ...
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Margot, on the other hand, has issues of her own. Eli, whom Margot has been having an affair with, tells her that Richie loves her. Later, Raleigh comes to check things out with her. Royal observes the two, and discovers that she has been cheating on him with Eli and objects to Margot's treatment of Raleigh. Raleigh has his suspicions, too. He talks to Richie (who also loves her) about it, and (although it is not shown in the movie) they hire a private eye to spy on her. This forms a sort of "love quadrilateral." On the other hand, Royal starts to try to win back Etheline. Henry observes Royal eating a cheeseburger and decides to tell Etheline that he thinks that he may not have cancer. Royal starts using a variety of racial slurs to try to anger Henry. At one point, he calls him "Coltrane," and they start a fight over it. The fight is broken up by Etheline. Henry, suspicious, investigates Royal's supposed hospital, discovering it had closed years before and the doctor is an invention of Royal's. Henry then confronts Royal's partner in crime, Pagoda, and asks him how much Royal is paying him. Henry also discovers that Royal's cancer medication pills are just Tic Tacs in medicine bottles. Private eye may mean: Look up Private eye on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Private Eye a fortnightly British satirical magazine-newspaper, edited by Ian Hislop (as of 2005) A private investigator, a private detective for hire (see also crime fiction and detective fiction) Private Eye, a song by Alkaline Trio...
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Henry picks an opportune moment, and tells the whole family that he knows that Royal can't have stomach cancer. He explains that it's extremely painful, and you can't eat "three cheeseburgers a day and fries if you have it." He also says that his past wife had died from it, so he would know what it looks like. Henry also mentions that the hospital he claimed to have been receiving treatment from is no longer operating. Having been discovered, Royal and Pagoda leave. Before he goes, Royal says that the past six days had been the best days of his life. Now even more broke than before, he and Pagoda get jobs as elevator attendants.
Richie and Raleigh then get the private eye report on Margot back. The following montage shows Margot at various points in her life: starting smoking, escaping from school, having a lesbian affair, getting married to a Jamaican recording artist for nine days, and having brief affairs with various men, including Eli Cash. Upon hearing the report, Raleigh says "So, she smokes." The news has a much more profound effect on Richie. He goes into the bathroom, shaves off his beard and most of his hair, calmly says "I'm going to kill myself tomorrow," and then slits his wrists, causing massive blood loss. Dudley finds him in a pool of his own blood, and Raleigh rushes him to the hospital. Soon after as the Tenenbaums sit in the waiting room, a visibly sad Raleigh acknowledges Margot's extramarital affairs in front of her and the family before leaving. Soon after, Richie escapes the hospital and meets with Margot. They share with each other their secret love.
Not long before, Royal and Etheline had signed the divorce papers making Etheline single. Henry and Etheline then plan their wedding. Before the marriage, Eli, high on mescaline and painted like an African priest, drives his car into the side of the building. Royal saves the boys, Ari and Uzi, from being run over, but their dog isn't so fortunate. Eli flies out of the car, through a window. An infuriated Chas chases after Eli through the building, breaking Father Peterson's ankle during the chase. When Chas catches up to Eli, he wrestles with him, and damages Richie's eye as he tries to pull him off of Eli. Chas throws Eli over a fence and turns around to realize that he's the only one chasing Eli. He then climbs over the fence and lays down next to Eli. Eli realizes that his problem has risked the lives of two children and Chas tells him he needs serious help. During the aftermath, Chas recognizes that Royal saved his children from death, mending their friendship. Royal then buys a dog from the firefighters that are at the scene for Ari and Uzi. Nuptial is the adjective of wedding. It is used for example in zoology to denote plumage, coloration, behavior, etc related to or occurring in the mating season. ...
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48 hours later, Etheline and Henry are married in a Judge's Chamber. Margot releases a new play based on her family, that gets fair attendance and mixed reviews with a snickering Royal among the audience, who is aware of the semi-autobiographical elements. Raleigh publishes a book on Dudley's condition entitled "Dudley's World." Eli checks himself into rehab somewhere in North Dakota. Richie starts a junior tennis program. Royal has a heart attack and dies quietly, at the age of 68. Chas is the only witness to his death, with the father and son having re-established their familial bond on Royal's deathbed. The funeral is small, but Royal's headstone reads "Died tragically rescuing his family from the remains of a destroyed sinking battleship." The movie closes with most of the characters walking away from the funeral to the tune of Van Morrison's Everyone. A judges chambers - often just called Chambers - is the office of a judge. ...
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Characters - Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) - A shamelessly selfish lawyer (briefly imprisoned) and a failure as a father. Intentionally, he shot his son Chas with a BB gun during a game, and consistently and irrelevantly feels he must point out that Margot is his "adopted daughter." He often took only Richie to dog fights while excluding Chas and Margot. Along with collaborator Owen Wilson, Anderson had Gene Hackman in mind for Royal Tenenbaum but the actor was reluctant to take the part. Hackman said that he prefers to disappear into a role, instead of having a role fitted for him to play. Because of this, Gene Wilder was offered the role as well, but turned it down because of his retirement.
- Etheline Tenenbaum (Anjelica Huston) - A noted archeologist and author, and the mother of the Tenenbaum children, who "makes their education her top priority" and helps them climb to fame. Later on, Ethel finds love in Henry Sherman, her accountant, the complete opposite of her estranged husband Royal.
- Chas Tenenbaum (Ben Stiller) - A genius in international finance, Chas sued his father twice and had him disbarred because of the bonds his father stole from his safety deposit box when he was fourteen. His wife, Rachel Evans Tenenbaum, died in a plane crash and he has since become obsessed with the safety of his sons, Ari and Uzi. They have a dog named Buckley.
- Margot Helen Tenenbaum (Gwyneth Paltrow) - A playwrighting prodigy, Margot once ran away from home for two weeks and came back with half of one of her fingers missing. In the film, spent much of her time moping in her bathtub, watching television. She smokes, unbeknownst to anyone else in her family as she is infamously secretive. She is also adopted, as Royal is quick to point out.
- Richie Tenenbaum (Luke Wilson) - A tennis prodigy, Richie is secretly in love with his adopted sister, Margot. While successful in his tennis career, Richie has a nervous breakdown on court in front of thousands of fans (the film implies his breakdown was because Margot and Raleigh were married the day before) and loses his desire to play tennis soon after. At the beginning of the film, he has been living on an ocean liner for several months. He drinks Bloody Marys with pepper throughout the movie, so much so that he carries a capped pepper shaker in his jacket pocket. The character of Richie is loosely based on former champion tennis player Bjorn Borg, who many consider to be the best tennis player ever. Borg shocked the tennis world by retiring at age 26 and wore the same style headband and trademark Fila polo as Richie and was rumored to have attempted suicide in the years after his exit from the game.
- Eli Cash (Owen Wilson) - A "friend of the family" since the Tenenbaum children were very young, considered Richie's best friend, Eli has a burning desire to "be a Tenenbaum." He gained success as an author of Western novels; his latest work presupposes the outcome if Custer didn't die at Little Bighorn. Eli has been having an affair with Margot and has a drug problem. There are implied suspicions that Eli is an illegitimate child of Royal. Wes Anderson has stated that Eli Cash actually is based on two authors; Cormac McCarthy and Jay McInerney.
- Henry Sherman (Danny Glover) - Ethel Tenenbaum's accountant and romantic interest. He confronts Royal on Royal's supposed stomach cancer with the family present. He reveals that his wife actually had stomach cancer, and Royal does not show any of the symptoms. Henry is the polar opposite of Royal.
- Raleigh St. Clair (Bill Murray) - Husband of Margot Tenenbaum and a famed (and strange) neurologist in his own right. Anderson has mentioned that St. Clair was based on Oliver Sacks. He is constantly accompanied by his adolescent test subject Dudley Heinsbergen.
- Pagoda (Kumar Pallana) - Friend and servant to the Tenenbaum Family. He also acts as an informant working for Royal to update him on his family. They met after Pagoda, an assassin in Calcutta, stabbed Royal; he earned his trust however when he then carried him on his back to the hospital.
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Adoption is the legal act of permanently placing a child with a parent or parents other than the birth parents. ...
Anjelica Huston (born July 8, 1951) is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning American actress and former fashion model. ...
Benjamin Edward Stiller (born November 30, 1965) is an Emmy-winning American comedian, actor, film producer and director. ...
Finance studies and addresses the ways in which individuals, businesses, and organizations raise, allocate, and use monetary resources over time, taking into account the risks entailed in their projects. ...
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Gwyneth Kate Paltrow (born September 27, 1972[1]) is an Academy Award-winning American actress and singer. ...
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Luke Cunningham Wilson (born September 21, 1971) is an American film actor. ...
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A Bloody Mary is a cocktail containing vodka, tomato juice, and usually other spices or flavorings such as Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco sauce, beef consomme or bouillon, horseradish, celery or celery salt, salt, black pepper, cayenne pepper, and lemon juice. ...
Björn Borg (born June 6, 1956) is a Swedish tennis player. ...
Owen Cunningham Wilson (born November 18, 1968) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor and writer. ...
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Combatants Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, Arapaho United States Commanders Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse George A. Custer †, Marcus Reno, Frederick Benteen, James Calhoun †Strength 949 lodges (probably 950-1,200 warriors) 31 officers, 566 troopers, 15 armed civilians, ~35-40 scouts Casualties At least 54 killed, ~168 wounded (according to Sitting Bull...
Cormac McCarthy, born Charles McCarthy,[1] July 20th, 1933 in Providence, Rhode Island, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist who has authored ten novels in the Southern Gothic, western, and post-apocalyptic genres. ...
Jay McInerney (born in 1955 in Hartford, Connecticut and christened John Barrett McInerney, Jr. ...
Danny Lebern Glover[1] (born July 22, 1946) is an American actor, film director, and political activist. ...
Accountant, or Qualified Accountant, or Professional Accountant, is a certified accountancy and financial expert in the jurisdiction of many countries. ...
William James Bill Murray (born September 21, 1950) is an Academy Award-nominated, Emmy-winning and Golden Globe-winning American comedian and actor. ...
Neurology is the branch of medicine that deals with the nervous system and disorders affecting it. ...
Oliver Sacks in 2005. ...
Kumar Pallana (born in central India, 1919) is an Indian character actor best known for his work with director Wes Anderson in three films: Bottle Rocket, Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums. ...
Inspirations and Influences The siblings of the Tenenbaum family are all highly intelligent and disillusioned, struggling with their own identities. They are loosely based on a rabble of similarly disillusioned siblings from the later books of famed author J.D. Salinger. The Glass family, comprised of seven child-prodigy-turned-adult-misanthrope characters, is the central subject of three of Salinger's four published books, and form the basis for the quirky and unhappy Tenenbaum family, as director Wes Anderson revealed in an interview with Premiere magazine conducted in January 2001. Jerome David Salinger (born January 1, 1919) is an American author best known for The Catcher in the Rye, a classic coming-of-age story that has enjoyed enduring popularity since its publication in 1951. ...
The Glass family is a group of fictional characters that have been featured in a number of J.D. Salingers short stories. ...
Misanthropy is a general dislike of the human race. ...
Wesley Wales Anderson (born May 1, 1969) is an American writer, producer, and director of films and commercials. ...
In one scene, Etheline Tenenbaum urges her daughter Margot Tenenbaum to get out of the bathroom. A similar scene takes up a large part of J.D. Salinger's book Franny and Zooey, when Bessie Glass spends quite a bit of time bothering her son Zooey Glass. Jerome David Salinger (born January 1, 1919) is an American author best known for The Catcher in the Rye, a classic coming-of-age story that has enjoyed enduring popularity since its publication in 1951. ...
Franny and Zooey is a 1961 pair of stories, published together in book form, by J. D. Salinger, the author best known for The Catcher in the Rye. ...
Bessie Glass (née Gallagher) is a fictional character best known as a member of J. D. Salingers Glass family. ...
The Glass family is a group of fictional characters that have been featured in a number of J.D. Salingers short stories. ...
Some members of the Tenenbaum family are actually modeled after members of Cinematographer Robert Yeoman's brother-in-law Walter Karnas' family. Certain small points of family members were exaggerated to make the character its own. The part of Royal Tenenbaum was written for Gene Hackman, but written after Walter Karnas himself. The same goes for the three Tenenbaum children, partially written after three of the Karnas children. A Cameraman-Reporter during a MINUSTAH mission in 2007 (Photo: Patrick-André Perron A cinematographer is one photographing with a motion picture camera (the art and science of which is known as cinematography). ...
Robert David Yeoman, A.S.C. Robert Yeoman was born on 10 March, 1951 in Philidelphia, Pennsylvania. ...
Royal OReilly Tenenbaum is the main character in the movie The Royal Tenenbaums. ...
Eugene Allen Gene Hackman[1] (born January 30, 1930) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actor. ...
Etheline Tenenbaum, played by Anjelica Huston, was modeled after Wes Anderson's own mother. Anderson's mother similarly adopted archaeology after divorcing her husband. The glasses Etheline wears are actually Mrs. Anderson's. At one point during filming, Anjelica Huston asked Wes Anderson if she was, in fact, supposed to be playing his mother. Anjelica Huston (born July 8, 1951) is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning American actress and former fashion model. ...
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Two of the film's characters are thought to be modeled after popular culture icon Nico. The blonde hair and dark mascara of Nico is reflected in the styling of Margot Tenenbaum; additionally, Chas's sons Ari and Uzi share the names with Nico's sons. Nico's "These Days" and "The Fairest of the Seasons" are featured in the movie. For the prequel to Ico, see Shadow of the Colossus. ...
Ari and Uzi's beagle Buckley is a tribute both to singer/songwriter Jeff Buckley and, as a beagle, to the Peanuts character Snoopy. Buckley's replacement by a dalmatian named "Spark Plug" near the end of the film may be an homage to Peanut's creator Charles Schulz, who was given the same nickname by his uncle. Jeff Buckley (November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997), born Jeffrey Scott Buckley and raised as Scotty Moorhead,[1] was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. ...
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The name for the movie was inspired, in part, by longtime friend of Wes Anderson, Brian Tenenbaum who has appeared in several of Anderson's movies in bit parts. In the Royal Tenenbaums he is one of the paramedics seen at the end of the film.
Henry Sherman is the name of Wes Anderson's former landlord. When the character of Henry Sherman is introduced in the film, he is standing in front of an apartment with a sign that says "H. Sherman - Landlord".
According to Wes Anderson in the DVD commentary, the subplot in which Margot and Richie hide in a museum is a homage to the book From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by E. L. Konigsburg. In the book, the characters Claudia and Jamie run away to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. This Book is a Newbery Award winner From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. ...
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Soundtrack -
The soundtrack to The Royal Tenenbaums contains a style typical of other Wes Anderson films. Mark Mothersbaugh, a member of Devo, composed the score for the soundtrack as well as for many of Anderson's other films. The film also features many rock songs from the 1960s-'80s. Music from the film is regularly used on the radio program This American Life.[1] The soundtrack to The Royal Tenenbaums contains a style typical of other Wes Anderson films. ...
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There have been two soundtrack album releases for The Royal Tenenbaums. The first, in 2001, was well-received by most critics, though some songs were omitted; notably, Paul Simon's "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard", Van Morrison's "Everyone", John Lennon's "Look At Me", The Mutato Muzika Orchestra's version of The Beatles' "Hey Jude" and two Rolling Stones tracks. Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, half of the folk-singing duo Simon and Garfunkel who continues a successful solo career. ...
George Ivan Morrison OBE (generally known as Van Morrison) (born August 31, 1945) is a singer-songwriter from Belfast, Northern Ireland. ...
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), (born John Winston Lennon, known as John Ono Lennon) was an iconic English 20th century rock and roll songwriter and singer, best known as the founding member of The Beatles. ...
Mutato Muzika logo Mutato Muzika is a music production company comprising of former Devo members Mark Mothersbaugh, Bob Mothersbaugh, Bob Casale as well as non-Devo personnel Albert Fox and Josh Mancell. ...
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In 2002, the soundtrack was re-released with three songs not found on the 2001 release, but the two songs found in the film by The Rolling Stones ("She Smiled Sweetly", "Ruby Tuesday") were still not included on the soundtrack. This is because while The Rolling Stones allow their music to be used in films, they rarely allow their material to appear on any soundtracks. The soundtrack was also still missing the Van Morrison track, which served as the closing credits song in the film.
Influences on popular culture The narration and the way the film follows each family member is similar to Fox's critically acclaimed yet cancelled television sitcom Arrested Development. Jason Bateman, one of the show's stars, described the show as "The Royal Tenenbaums shot like COPS". Arrested Development's creator and head writer Mitchell Hurwitz said that when he saw The Royal Tenenbaums he already had the idea for Arrested Development in mind and thought "Well, I guess I won't be doing that"[citation needed] but subsequently changed his mind. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...
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Taglines - Family Isn't A Word... It's A Sentence.
- You Are Invited To A Remarkable Family Gathering.
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