The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Directed by Orson Welles
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
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They may be unfair, but I prefer Orson Welles' method in The Magnificent Ambersons, one of the obvious inspirations for the Tenenbaums.
Inspired by Orson Welles' "The Magnificent Ambersons" and stories by J. D. Salinger, Anderson and co-writer Owen Wilson locate their family story in a tall New York house.
“Boyhood” is something else again, almost a combination of Michael Apted’s “Up” documentaries, Ingmar Bergman’s “Fanny and Alexander” and Orson Welles’ “The Magnificent Ambersons,” but translated into Linklater’s Texas-Zen aesthetic and the world of the 21st-century American family.
With Welles it was The Magnificent Ambersons , an adaptation of Booth Tarkington’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the decline of a wealthy Midwestern family.
Whether it’s the backstabbing Roy clan of HBO’s Succession, the blundering Bluths of Arrested Development or the titular family in Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons, riches-to-rags tales are a ton of fun — particularly when they feature hopelessly dysfunctional characters.