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

Royal calls Richie from the hotel telephone booth.

Scene 66 of 143 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

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Begins 58 min into a 1:59 film

The story so farBefore scene 66

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 63
Eli admits to Richie that he is taking mescaline and raises concern about Richie’s love for his married adopted sister.
Scene 64
Royal enters the Lindbergh Palace Hotel through its revolving doors.
Scene 65
The hotel manager explains Royal’s removal and moves his luggage out of the lobby.
Scene 66
This scene

66INT. TELEPHONE BOOTH. DAY.

Royal places a call from the lobby.

ROYAL

Richie? It’s your dad.