Addams Family Values
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Addams Family Values (1993) is a sequel to the 1991 comedy The Addams Family movie. Written by Paul Rudnick and directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, many of the cast from the original movie return to play their roles.
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 Alford" from the first film makes a cameo.
Carol Kane replaces Judith Malina in the role of Grandmama Addams. Co-stars include Joan Cusack as Fester's new love interest, Debbie Jellinsky, and David Krumholtz as 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#redirect have cameo roles.
Plot synopsis
Morticia and Gomez Addams have a new child named Pubert. They hire a nanny named Debbie Jellinsky who is in fact a serial-killer after Uncle Fester's fortune. Wednesday and Pugsley are jealous of the new baby and attempt to kill it several times. Eventually Debbie has them sent to a summer camp.
Debbie goes on to marry Fester and throughout the rest of the movie attempts to kill him. However the fact he is an Addams makes this quite impossible and also makes it impossible for Uncle Fester to realize that she isn't being kind. This results in much frustration on Debbie's part and as a temporary measure she refuses to allow Uncle Fester to see his family.
Uncle Fester's separation from his family results in Pubert coming down with a disease that makes him act and look like a normal child with the only cure being Uncle Fester returning to live with the family.
While this is occurring Wednesday and Pugsley do not fit in, causing the people running the camp to try to brain-wash them by showing them a series of Disney movies. When they return they appear to be normal, however it is all a ruse that climaxes when the play is held with the misfits of the camp, led by Wednesday, acting out a coup and taking over the camp. Once over Wednesday and Pugsley flee the camp to return home.
When Debbie blows Uncle Fester up in an attempt to kill him, only resulting in him being quite happy, she takes him to the Addams house where she ties the family to electric chairs including the children, with the exception of Pubert, who is cured as Fester has returned. While Debbie shows a slideshow, Pubert comes down and switches an electrical wire so when Debbie tries to electrocute everyone, she herself is actually electrocuted.
Stars
- Anjelica Huston as Morticia Addams
- Raul Julia as Gomez Addams
- Christopher Lloyd as Uncle Fester Addams
- Joan Cusack as Debbie Jellinsky
- Christina Ricci as Wednesday Addams
Co-Stars
- Joan Cusack as Debbie Jellinsky
- Jimmy Workman as Pugsley Addams
- Christopher Hart as Thing
- Carel Struycken as Lurch
- David Krumholtz as Joel Glicker
- Kaitlyn Hooper & Kristen Hooper as Pubert Addams
- Cheryl Chase as Pubert Addams (voice)
- Carol Kane as Grandmama Addams
Trivia
- You can still see the poster at Paramount's Great America inside the park.
External links
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