What actor serves as the narrator of the 2001 film "The Royal Tenenbaums"?

The 2001 American comedy-drama film, "The Royal Tenenbaums", was directed by Wes Anderson and co-written with Owen Wilson. The narration of this film is done by Alec Baldwin. After Hackman's speech and movements as Royal Tenenbaum, Baldwin stated that he modeled his performance as the narrator on the character Jack Donaghy from his television series "30 Rock".

In the movie, Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) and his wife, Etheline (Anjelica Huston), have three children. They are Chas, Margot, and Richie. The couple get separate after they have had their kids. Chas (Ben Stiller) started buying real estate in his early teens and seemed to have an almost preternatural understanding of international finance. Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow) was a playwright and received a Braverman Grant of $50,000 in the ninth grade. Richie (Luke Wilson) was a junior champion tennis player who won the U.S. Nationals three years in a row.

Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums is subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. With this film, critics have pointed out that Criterion Collection was proud to give the public Wes Anderson's hilarious, touching, and brilliantly stylized study of melancholy and redemption.