Addams Family Values
Addams Family Values is a 1993 American supernatural black comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and written by Paul Rudnick, based on the characters created by Charles Addams. It is the sequel to The Addams Family (1991). The film features almost all the main cast members from the original film, including Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, Christina Ricci, Carel Struycken, Jimmy Workman, and Christopher Hart. Joan Cusack plays Debbie Jellinsky, a serial killer who marries Fester Addams (Lloyd) intending to murder him for his inheritance, while teenagers Wednesday (Ricci) and Pugsley (Workman) are sent to summer camp. Compared to its predecessor, which retained something of the madcap approach of the 1960s sitcom, Addams Family Values is played more for very dark and macabre laughs.
Plot
Gomez and Morticia Addams hire a nanny named Debbie Jellinsky to take care of their newborn son Pubert after his older siblings (Wednesday and Pugsley)'s failed attempts to kill him, for which Gomez and Morticia gently rebuke them.
Cast
- Anjelica Huston
- Barry Sonnenfeld
- Camille Saviola
- Carel Struycken
- Carol Kane
- Chris Ellis
- Christina Ricci
- Christine Baranski
- Christopher Hart
- Christopher Lloyd
- Cynthia Nixon
- Dana Ivey
- David Hyde Pierce
- David Krumholtz
- Harriet Sansom Harris
- Jimmy Workman
- Joan Cusack
- John Franklin
- Laura Esterman
- Mercedes McNab
- Monet Mazur
- Nathan Lane
- Peter MacNicol
- Raúl Juliá
- Sam McMurray
- Steven M. Martin
- Tony Shalhoub
More details
author | Paul Rudnick |
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contentLocation | summer camp |
director | Barry Sonnenfeld |
editor | Arthur Schmidt Jim Miller |
genre | comedy fantasy horror |
keywords | addams family bachelor bachelorette party bookworm boombox camp counselor collect their inheritances counselor credit card electric chair engage family life first kiss force gold digger gomez gomez addams grandmama honeymoon kill morticia addams pocahontas pugsley pugsley addams return home scar sibling television show thanksgiving thing uncle fester wednesday wednesday addams |
musicBy | Marc Shaiman |
nomination | Academy Award for Best Production Design |
producer | Scott Rudin |
productionCompany | Scott Rudin Productions |
publisher | Paramount Pictures |
recordedAt | California |
theme | black comedy comedy horror screwball comedy sequel serial killer |