Mel Cannon

Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the 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. "The Royal Tenenbaums" is the story of the family's sudden, unexpected reunion one recent winter.

Billy Fong, a Chinese boy working the Shanghai docks, becomes friends with Dawson Cole, the spoiled son of an American shipping tycoon. As adults, the friends become business partners. Dawson wants to run a legitimate trade, but Billy craves the power that comes with leadership among the cities gangster underground.

Eoin is a businessman who can no longer pay the bills or the mortgage, Paul is a landlord with the banks breathing down his neck, and Monika is a Polish cleaner whose minimum wage job is under threat. All three are struggling for survival and forced into increasingly desperate actions in the hope of keeping their lives and families together. Through separate but interlinked stories their choices will affect their own lives as well as each others.

Eoin is a businessman who can no longer pay the bills or the mortgage, Paul is a landlord with the banks breathing down his neck, and Monika is a Polish cleaner whose minimum wage job is under threat. All three are struggling for survival and forced into increasingly desperate actions in the hope of keeping their lives and families together. Through separate but interlinked stories their choices will affect their own lives as well as each others.