The Royal Tenenbaums · written by Wes Anderson & Owen Wilson · 2001

Richie meets Eli’s wife Sabrina and their children in her studio, where Eli’s unsettled household is on display.

Scene 62 of 143 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Eli
Sabrina
Richie

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Begins 56 min into a 1:59 film

The story so farBefore scene 62

After losing his hotel room, Royal claims he has only weeks to live so he can move back in with his estranged family; as the truth unravels, he must find a way to be useful and earn a place in their lives.

Scenes 1–39
Royal is absent from the children’s adult lives, and their family remains shaped by his betrayals and abandonment.
Scenes 40–47
Royal wants a path back to Etheline and the children, and claims impending death will give him one.
Scenes 48–50
He returns to the house and openly asks his children for a chance to make things right.
Just before
Scene 59
Young Margot loses part of a finger when an Indiana farmer chops a log; she later explains the injury to Ari and Uzi.
Scene 60
A flashback shows Chas suing Royal over stolen money and bonds after Royal controlled his accounts as a minor.
Scene 61
Richie visits Eli, who admits to sharing Richie’s private letter with Margot.
Scene 62
This scene

62INT. STUDIO. DAY.

Richie and Eli walk into the next room. Eli’s wife, Sabrina, is painting in her studio. She is very beautiful and wears spectacles and a white sari. She is barefoot. Classical music plays quietly on the record player.

ELI

Sabrina?

Sabrina does not look up. She seems irritated.

SABRINA

What?

ELI

Look what I found on the doorstep.

Sabrina looks to Richie. She is only mildly surprised. She has an English accent.

SABRINA

Hello, darling.

Sabrina hugs and kisses Richie.

ELI

Charlotte? Stetson? Say hello to Uncle

Richie.

There are two children in the corner. Stetson is six. He works at a spinning potter’s wheel, molding a hunk of clay. Charlotte is five. She is painting a set of teacups. She has a cast in a sling on her arm. They are both blond and fair.

The children do not respond to Eli. Eli does not appear to notice this, as he is in the process of relighting his joint.

RICHIE

How’d she break her arm?

ELI

(sadly)

I fell down the stairs with her.

Richie looks disturbed. He notices a nude, teenaged girl standing on the table. She has a deep tan, except where she wore a bikini. She is Sabrina’s model, Cinnamon.

ELI (CONT’D)

That’s Cinnamon. Hello, Cinnamon.

Cinnamon looks at Eli coldly.