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Trivia: When Richie visits Elie, there's a huge blurred pile of adult films near the television and many plants in another room, presumably marijuana.

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Continuity mistake: When Royal is talking to his children about the separation with Etheline, the cigarette alternates from being in his hands and in the ashtray.

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Continuity mistake: When Royal and Pagoda are speaking in Battery Park, there's a blind man with a dog behind Royal. He has smoked glasses in the first shot, but not after that.

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Continuity mistake: When Eli crashes on the house and says "Where's my shoe?" he has white socks, but when Chas throws him over the wall, he has black socks.

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Trivia: The character of Etheline Tenenbaum is based on director Wes Anderson's mother, who became an archaeologist after the divorce with his father.

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Trivia: Etheline Tenenbaum's glasses belonged to director Wes Anderson's mother.

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Other mistake: Royal and Etheline are walking in the park and it is written in the book. But it's also written "Childrens play in the trees". They are alone in the park. There is only Henry Sherman at the end and a dog on the other side of the pond.

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Trivia: The name of the familly and the movie came from Brian Tenenbaum, a friend of Wes Anderson, the director, Owen Wilson and Luke Wilson. He also plays one of the paramedics in the accident scene.

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Trivia: The announcers at Richie's tennis match are actually director Wes Anderson, and Luke and Owen Wilson's brother, Andrew.

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Trivia: In the closeup of Chas' hand with a pellet lodged between its knuckles it's not Ben Stiller's, but Andrew Wilson's hand, brother of Owen and Luke Wilson. When they were children, Owen fired a pellet gun at Andrew's hand.

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