Outdoor Movie Night: The Royal Tenenbaums

On the first Monday of every month, The Cross runs a free Outdoor Movie Night in the Garden Bar.

Our May movie night is just around the corner, and we've decided to screen another Wes Anderson classic: The Royal Tenenbaums.

It's free (did we mention that?), and there'll be hot water bottles, blankets, popcorn, food & drink specials and other awesome things. The movie will kick off at 7 pm - get in early to get yourself a front row bean bag spot!

About the movie: The Royal Tenenbaums

Family Isn't A Word... It's A Sentence.

Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums is the richly tragicomic story of one unique family's sudden, unexpected reunion. Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) and his wife Etheline (Angelica Huston) had three children - Chas (Ben Stiller), Ritchie (Luke Wilson) and Margot (Gwneth Paltrow), and then they separated. Chas started buying real estate in his early teens and seemed to have an almost preternatural understanding of international finance. Margot was a playwright and received a Braverman Grant of fifty thousand dollars in the ninth grade. Ritchie was a junior championship tennis player and won the US Nationals three years in a row.

Virtually all memory of brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure and disaster. Most of this was generally considered to be their father's fault. With a literate script and a wonderful ensemble cast, The Royal Tenenbaums confirms Anderson as one of the most gifted directors on the American scene.

Our licensing laws forbid us to allow patrons U18 in our bar after 5 pm, so please do bring your ID with you - or bring your parent along if you aren't 18+.