Addams Family Values

Watch: Addams Family Values

PG-13

11/19/19931h 34m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ The family just got a little stranger. ~

Overview:

Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy adored by parents Gomez and Morticia. Things go from bad to worse when the new "black widow" nanny, Debbie Jellinsky, launches her plan to add Fester to her collection of dead husbands.

Director:

Barry Sonnenfeld

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$47,000,000.00

Revenue:

$48,919,043.00

Key words:

dancing
jealousy
baby
sibling relationship
summer camp
yuppie
butler
nanny
thanksgiving
guillotine
uncle
mansion
wedding
macabre
disembodied hand
anxious

Cast

Anjelica Huston

~ as ~

Morticia Addams

Raúl Juliá

~ as ~

Gomez Addams

Christopher Lloyd

~ as ~

Uncle Fester

Joan Cusack

~ as ~

Debbie Jellinsky

Christina Ricci

~ as ~

Wednesday Addams

Carol Kane

~ as ~

Granny

Jimmy Workman

~ as ~

Pugsley Addams

David Krumholtz

~ as ~

Joel Glicker

Peter MacNicol

~ as ~

Gary Granger

Christine Baranski

~ as ~

Becky Martin-Granger

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Reviews (2)

Gimly
Written 6 year(s) ago
6
Almost thirty years after their first on screen appearance, and more than fifty after their creation, The Addams Family proved itself still relevant in the 1990s. Addams Family Values specifically though, might be my favourite part of the whole franchise.

Final rating:★★★ - I liked it. Would personally recommend you give it a go.
CinemaSerf
Written 1 year(s) ago
7
As sequels go, this one is really quite good fun. The arrival of baby "Pubert" doesn't exactly thrill "Wednesday" (Christina Ricci) nor "Pugsley" (Jimmy Workman) and they determine that he has to go! Meantime, parents "Morticia" (Anjelica Huston) and "Gomez" (Raul Julia) decide that they need to get him a nanny - and they alight on "Debbie" (Joan Cusack) who immediately sets her sights on "Uncle Fester" (Christopher Lloyd). The children are sent to one of those horrible summer camps run by the kumbaya brigade where they don't quite fit in with the curriculum of the nauseatingly gloopy "Becky" (Christine Baranksi) and her abundance of twee students straight out of "Little House on the Prairie". Scene set for some deliciously dark antics as the kids must escape from the monstrousness of their retreat - causing a maximum of damage and delivering quite a potent assessment of the plight of the native American en route - and deal with their domestic interloper. Speaking of interlopers, it's also clear that nanny has quite a malevolent streak of her own - and "Fester" might soon be destined to join her long list of deceased spouses. As ever, it's Huston who steals the show here - she barely features, but when she does she imbues the whole thing with a certain menacing dignity. The rest of the ensemble work well together and the story is peppered with plenty of daft (adult) humour, a little bit of gentle slapstick and "Lurch" (Carer Struycken) is there to keep order. There's plenty of attention to the detailed look of the film and in the end I was was probably with the siblings about the young "Pubert"!