Addams Family Values 1993

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 90 min

genre: comedy

theme: black comedy

director: Barry Sonnenfeld

Score: 6 / 10

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

More details

author	Paul Rudnick
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