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His first feature, <I>Bottle Rocket</I> (1996), concerned prep-school hoodlums who dream of a life of crime but can't quite pull it off, and starred <a href="/people/886/000044754/">Luke</a> and <a href="/people/530/000044398/">Owen Wilson</a>, who had been Anderson's collaborators on an embryonic version of the film. <I>Rushmore</I> (1998) debuted <a href="/people/514/000044382/">Jason Schwartzman</a> as a cocky prep-school student staring down <a href="/people/537/000024465/">Bill Murray</a>. Murray starred in Anderson's next two films -- <I>The Royal Tenenbaums</I> (2001), a sprawling, anti-family ensemble piece, touching on incest, suicide, mental illness, and cancer (released around Christmas), and <I>The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou</I> (2004), about a <a href="/people/250/000085992/">Jacques Cousteau</a>-type turned Ahab whose colleague is eaten by a rare shark. <I>The Life Aquatic</I> co-starred Owen Wilson, but it was Anderson's first film not co-scripted by Wilson. <p><b>Girlfriend:</b> <a href="/people/124/000130731/">Tara Subkoff</a> (actress, together 2004)<br><p> High School: St. John's School, Houston, TX<br> University: <a href="/edu/364/000082118/">BA Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin</a><br><p> Endorsement of <a href="/company/028/000051872/">American Express</a> (2006)<br> Risk Factors: <a href="/lists/075/000164580/">Aviophobia</a><br> <p> <font size=-2 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR</font><br> <a href="/films/216/000404998/">Isle of Dogs (15-Feb-2018)</a> <br> <a href="/films/574/000380431/">The Grand Budapest Hotel (6-Feb-2014)</a> <br> <a href="/films/729/000348682/">Moonrise Kingdom (16-May-2012)</a> <br> <a href="/films/045/000209415/">Fantastic Mr. Fox (14-Oct-2009)</a> <br> <a href="/films/215/000162726/">The Darjeeling Limited (3-Sep-2007)</a> <br> <a href="/films/349/000061166/">The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (20-Nov-2004)</a> <br> <a href="/films/464/000036356/">The Royal Tenenbaums (5-Oct-2001)</a> <br> <a href="/films/546/000036438/">Rushmore (17-Sep-1998)</a> <br> <a href="/films/548/000036440/">Bottle Rocket (21-Feb-1996)</a> <br><p> <font size=-2 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR</font><br> <a href="/films/029/000402817/">Sing (11-Sep-2016)</a> <font size=-2 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">[VOICE]</font><br> <a href="/films/045/000209415/">Fantastic Mr. Fox (14-Oct-2009)</a> · Weasel <font size=-2 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">[VOICE]</font><br><p> <br> <p> <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: italic; color: #ff3333;">New!</span><br> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a></td> <td valign=middle align=right style="border-left: 1px solid #bbb; padding-left: 5px;">Create a map starting with</td> <td valign=middle align=right><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=44329"><img src="/man.gif" border=0 style="padding: 2px;"></a></td> <td align=left valign=middle> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=44329">Wes Anderson</a></td> </tr> </table> <font face="Trebuchet MS, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</font> <br><br><p> <font size=-1>Do you know something we don't?</font><br> <font size=-1><a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=44329" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a></font><br> <p> <br><br><p><font size=-1>Copyright ©2019 Soylent Communications</font><p> </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"></td></tr> </table> </center> </body> </html>