The Royal Tenenbaums

Movie • 2001 • Comedy  

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This movie contains 43 potentially triggering events.
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Anonymous
Dog is run over by a car at the end and also there is a scene where the young children are taken to a dog fight
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Anonymous
They did use sharpie on the nice to give them spots, but they were otherwise unharmed.
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Does an animal die?
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mothenthusiast
There’s a dog fight, although it’s not shown
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LisaWilliamson
Two characters attend dog fights a few times in the movie. It is off camera, but you can hear barking
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jojox
A dog dies but is not shown and the head of a boar is shown mounted
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Does a cat die?
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just_here_for_the_cake
A pet dog is killed in a car accident. Not shown, but the children whose pet it was do show some distress.
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Are there bugs?
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just_here_for_the_cake
The Tenenbaum children were abandoned by their father as children, and a large part of the movie is them dealing with that when he returns to their lives.
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jojox
Royal does repeatedly lie to his family but it’s not really gas lighting more like just being manipulative
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Elthegoblin
Kinda there’s a private investigater
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just_here_for_the_cake
Royal’s a pretty bad parent, but not outright abusive (save mistakenly shooting one of his kids with a BB gun).
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Sid
Not severely or anything but there’s some pretty bad parenting. Royal shoots at Chaz with a BB gun when he is a child, and later takes Ari and Uzi on a montage of committing petty crimes and doing dangerous things
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just_here_for_the_cake
Chass passes on an unhealthy parenting style to his sons, like his dad did.
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Sid
Eli has a drug problem, seemingly mostly hallucinogens and cocaine
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scarywolfheads
Eli (Owen wilson) is seen doing drugs
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jojox
Someone slits their wrists in a suicide attempt. The cutting itself is not shown but we see a lot of blood and later briefly see the cuts on one arm
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Anonymous
Off Screen Margots finger is cut off by an axe.
We see her prosthetic finger multiple times.
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jojox
Someone is hit in the eye during a fight and diagnosed with a mild corneal injury we briefly see them wearing a patch on their eye
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jojox
Royal fakes difficulty breathing while lying to his family about being ill
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Sid
An ankle
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it is said Margot disappeared for a week and returned missing half a finger and she is shown with a wooden prosthetic
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just_here_for_the_cake
Someone is shoved, but seems unharmed.
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jojox
Henry briefly falls down a hole and has to climb back up but he is unhurt and it is (very deadpan) played for laughs
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jojox
No but it is referenced in an off hand way
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Does a kid die?
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Anonymous
Father does at the end
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just_here_for_the_cake
Royal dies in the film’s final minutes.
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Anonymous
SPOILER


Chassie's dog is killed when he's hit by a car
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Sid
Chaz’s wife died in a plane crash before the events of the film, Royal dies at the end
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jojox
*spoilers* Margot is shown as having been repeatedly unfaithful to her husband Raleigh including with Eli. Royal is referred to as having been unfaithful in the past
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just_here_for_the_cake
Royal at the end of the film, Chass’s wife (and mother to two boys) prior to the film’s beginning.
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Chel
Not a shower scene but Margot is repeatedly shown lounging in a bath tub.
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just_here_for_the_cake
Shown as part of a suicide attempt - we see the razor before and the bleeding after, but not the actual act.
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Margo is bisexual and cheats. She doesn’t cheat on men with women for vice versa, but still
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Anonymous
The father mentions having stomach cancer. I believe they later learn it is a lie.
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jojox
We see Richie in hospital after *spoilers* attempting suicide
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kaleidobear
after richie’s attempted suicide, when they all gather in the hospital he is given an injection
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jojox
We see Richie in hospital after *spoilers* attempting suicide
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Sid
A kid with a fictional disease called “Heisenbergen syndrome” is experimented on and studied and at the end of the film displayed at a lecture
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mossx
A character says "I'm going to kill myself tomorrow" and a few moments later takes a blade out of their razor. The act isn't seen but you see blood running down their arms and them found unconscious on the floor. Their blood is seen on the characters who found them as well. Later, the freshly stitched scars are shown.
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fieamanda
Unsuccessfully, but there is an attempt.
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Anonymous
There's a kid who is going through testing via Margot's husband. There is a portion where he asks a kid to make the same shape out of blocks that he did, and the child does it wrong. There's no punishment for it. The kid shows up randomly thereafter.
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Sid
Margot declines to eat several times, saying she is not hungry. Her husband tries to persuade her, saying “you need to eat”
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Sid
After Chaz’s wife died in a plane crash that he, his children and his dog survived, he becomes obsessed with his children’s safety, making them do fire drills and panicking that they will be hurt. It’s played off as something funny but it’s honestly quite upsetting
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Chel
There is a scene where Chaz pulls Royal into a small storage closet with board games. It is a tight space but they are not trapped.
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jojox
Someone cuts their wrists, the act itself isn’t shown but we see blood and later cuts on the arm are briefly shown
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Emetephobe
*Spoilers* Richie says “I’m going to kill myself tomorrow” before his attempt (if you want to skip it’s the part where he’s in the bathroom cutting his hair and beard)
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just_here_for_the_cake
Swearing.
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Anonymous
Uzi and Ari swim with Royal
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Does a baby cry?
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FleetwoodMacNCheez
A P.I. is hired to follow Margot
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Racially charged insults to a black character
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FrolickingSpock
No n words but Royal throws some racially-based digs at Henry. Calls him Coltrane and such.
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just_here_for_the_cake
22 year age gap between the actors. It’s briefly mentioned.
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FleetwoodMacNCheez
Briefly mentioned in the montage about Margot's past.
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futurafree
nudity is shown once but it is a very short scene
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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scarywolfheads
Richie and margot are adoptive siblings and enter into a romantic relationship. although they aren't blood related it can still make people uncomfortable.
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Is there BDSM?
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just_here_for_the_cake
In Margot’s life flashback, there’s a nude woman with breasts exposed.
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just_here_for_the_cake
Royal lies to his family that he is, though.
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Sid
Royal and Pagoda are very briefly
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just_here_for_the_cake
Royal dies, but everyone manages to move on with their lives and progress as people.
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Anonymous
We don't see it but they mention a characters wife dying in a plane crash many times.
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jojox
A dog is run over by a car towards the end of the movie. Not shown fully on screen but we see the car crashed into the side of a building
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Sid
Eli drives into the front of the house at high speed, killing a dog
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Sid
When Richie slits his wrists
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There are BB guns but nothing more
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