Addams Family Values

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Addams Family Values
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Directed by	Barry Sonnenfeld
Produced by	Scott Rudin
Written by	Charles Addams(characters) Paul Rudnick
Starring	Raul Julia Angelica Huston Christopher Lloyd Joan Cusack Christina Ricci Carol Kane Jimmy Workman Kaitlyn and Kristen Hooper Carel Struycken
Music by	Marc Shaiman Ralph Sall
Cinematography	Donald Peterman
Editing by	Jim Miller Arthur Schmidt
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	19 November 1993
Running time	94 min.
Country	USA
Language	English
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Addams Family Values (1993) is a sequel to the 1991 comedy The Addams Family. The movie was written by Paul Rudnick and directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, and many cast members from the original returned for the sequel.

Raul Julia, Anjelica Huston, Christopher Lloyd, Christopher Hart, Carel Struycken, Jimmy Workman, and Christina Ricci reprise their roles as, respectively, Gomez, Morticia, Fester, Thing, Lurch, Pugsley, and Wednesday Addams. In addition, Dana Ivey's character Margaret Addams (Alford in the original film) makes a cameo appearance.

Carol Kane replaces Judith Malina in the role of Grandmama Addams. Joan Cusack co-stars as professional black widow Debbie Jellinsky, and David Krumholtz plays Wednesday's love interest, Joel Glicker.

Christine Baranski, Peter MacNicol, and Mercedes McNab have supporting roles; Peter Graves, director Barry Sonnenfeld, and Nathan Lane, Tony Shalhoub, David Hyde Pierce, and Dan Aykroyd^{[citation needed]} have cameo roles. Compared to the previous movie, which has a madcap approach comparable to the 1960s sitcom, Values is darker and more macabre, more like Charles Addams' original comic strips.

1 Plot synopsis
2 Cast
3 Trivia
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Plot synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

At the beginning of the film, Morticia gives birth to a new baby boy, Pubert Addams. When Wednesday and Pugsley jealously try to kill him, Morticia and Gomez hire a nanny named Debbie Jellinsky, who is really a serial killer after Uncle Fester's fortune. When Wednesday begins to suspect, Debbie has both the older children sent to Camp Chippewa, a summer camp for privileged children.

Debbie marries Fester, then tries repeatedly to kill him. However, as an Addams, he's practically indestructible, and he mistakes her murder attempts for ordinary affection. Frustrated, Debbie turns nasty, and tells Fester she won't have sex with him unless he agrees never to see his family again. In anguish, he agrees.

With Uncle Fester gone, Gomez goes into a decline, and Pubert comes down with a terrible disease that makes him blond, rosy, and cheerful; horrified, Gomez learns that he might even develop dimples (Not in this house! he cries).

Meanwhile, at camp, Wednesday and Pugsley aren't fitting in, and Wednesday refuses to play Pocahontas in the end-of-summer play, a salute to Thanksgiving entitled A Turkey Called Brotherhood. The counselors try to brainwash them by locking them in the "Harmony Hut" and showing them a series of Disney movies, notably Annie and The Sound of Music and The Brady Bunch. When they come out, Wednesday summons up a ghastly smile, frightening the other children, and tells the counselors that she wants to be perky, and sing, and dance, and be Pocahontas. During the play, however, the misfits, led by Wednesday, launch an attack and take over the camp. Afterwards, Wednesday kiss Joel and Pugsley make their escape and go back home.

When Debbie blows up her new house with Fester inside, only to see him emerge smiling from the smoke, she loses her temper entirely and tells him "I want you dead, and I want your money!" He escapes, but she follows him to the Addams house, where she ties everyone to electric chairs - except Pubert, who returns to normal as soon as Fester comes home. While Debbie gives a slideshow of her past homicides, Pubert crosses the wires so when Debbie throws the switch to electrocute everyone, she is incinerated, leaving only a pile of ashes and a couple of credit cards.

At the end of the film, Gomez and Morticia give Pubert a birthday party, and Wednesday plays a prank on Joel with Debbie, ending with Wendnesday smiling at the camera.

[edit] Cast

Anjelica Huston - Morticia Addams
Raul Julia - Gomez Addams
Christopher Lloyd - Uncle Fester Addams
Christina Ricci - Wednesday Addams
Joan Cusack - Debbie Jellinsky
Jimmy Workman - Pugsley Addams
Christopher Hart - Thing
Carel Struycken - Lurch
David Krumholtz - Joel Glicker
Kaitlyn Hooper & Kristen Hooper - Pubert Addams
Cheryl Chase - Pubert Addams (voice)
Carol Kane - Grandmama Addams

[edit] Trivia

Mercedes McNab, who appeared as the girl scout in the first film, appears as the character Amanda Buckman.
David Hyde Pierce, Tony Shalhoub, Christine Baranski, Nathan Lane and Harriet Samson Harris, who have cameos in the film, also appear in the television show Frasier
Grandmama Addams makes a reference to Pubert possibly growing up to be a lawyer at which Gomez crys out in horror. In the original television series, however, Gomez was a lawyer.

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

Addams Family Values at the Internet Movie Database

The Addams Family
Characters
Gomez Addams \| Morticia Addams \| Pugsley Addams \| Wednesday Addams \| Uncle Fester \| Grandmama \| Lurch \| Thing \| Cousin Itt
TV
The Addams Family \| The New Addams Family
Films
The Addams Family (1991) \| Addams Family Values (1993) \| Addams Family Reunion (1998)
Games
Fester's Quest (1989) \| The Addams Family (pinball) (1991) \| Addams Family (1992) \| The Addams Family: Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt (1993) \| Addams Family Values (1994) \| Addams Family (1994)