Addams Family Values

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Family members of a strange household try to rescue Uncle Fester from his gold-digging wife who also happens to be a serial killer whose speciality is killing rich men to collect their inheritance.

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Summary

Addams Family Values

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, Carol Kane, and David Krumholtz joined the cast for this film. 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.

The film revolves around the family’s adjustments to the birth of new baby Pubert.

Subplots include Fester Addams marrying Pubert’s nanny Debbie Jellinsky, who is a serial killer intending to murder him for his inheritance; and teenagers Wednesday and Pugsley Addams being sent to summer camp.

The film was released by Paramount Pictures on November 19, 1993.

In contrast to its predecessor’s mixed reception, the film was well received by critics; however, it was not as financially successful, with a box office gross of $111 million against a budget of $47 million.

In the decades since its release, the film has become acclaimed for its humor and performances. This would be Julia’s final theatrical film released during his lifetime; he would appear posthumously in one more film, Street Fighter (1994).



Plot

Gomez and Morticia Addams hire a nanny named Debbie Jellinsky to take care of their newborn son Pubert after a number of failed attempts by his siblings Wednesday and Pugsley to kill him, for which Gomez and Morticia gently rebuke them.

Unbeknownst to them, Debbie is a serial killer who marries and then murders rich bachelors to collect their inheritances. After Debbie seduces Uncle Fester, Wednesday becomes suspicious of her intentions.

In an effort to maintain her cover, Debbie tricks Gomez and Morticia into believing Wednesday and Pugsley want to go to summer camp.

Wednesday and Pugsley are sent to Camp Chippewa, managed by the always cheerful and lively Gary and Becky Granger, where they are singled out by the counselors and popular and snobbish girl Amanda Buckman for their macabre appearance and behavior.

Joel Glicker, a nerdy bookworm and fellow outcast, becomes attracted to Wednesday. Debbie and Fester become engaged. At her bachelorette party, Debbie is repulsed by the Addams family and their relatives.

At their wedding, Fester passionately and with great emotion declares his everlasting devotion, while Debbie offers a lackluster response. On their honeymoon, she tries unsuccessfully to kill Fester by throwing a boombox into the bathtub.

Frustrated, Debbie forces him to cut ties with his family; when they try to visit Fester and Debbie at their home, they are removed from the premises.

The Addamses are alarmed to find that Pubert has transformed into a blue-eyed, rosy-cheeked and blond-haired baby. Grandmama diagnoses this as a result of his disrupted family life, and Gomez becomes horribly depressed.

Back at Camp Chippewa, the counselors cast Wednesday as Pocahontas in Gary’s Thanksgiving play, “A Turkey Named Brotherhood”.

When she refuses to participate, she, Pugsley, and Joel are all sent to the camp’s “Harmony Hut” and forced to watch hours of wholesome family entertainment movies and television shows.

Afterwards, the three feign cheerfulness, and Wednesday agrees to take part. However, during the performance, she reveals her deception and returns to being her true self.

With help from Joel, Pugsley, and the other outcast campers, they capture Amanda, Gary, and Becky by igniting the pilgrim set.

Later, Wednesday and Joel share their first kiss before they begin separating, with Joel staying behind to lead their friends to ensure the camp’s permanent destruction. Pugsley and Wednesday return home in the campsite’s stolen van.

Debbie tries to kill Fester by blowing up their mansion, but he survives its destruction. She then pulls a gun and reveals that she never loved him and was only interested in his money.

Thing helps Fester escape by knocking Debbie aside with her own car. Fester apologizes to Gomez upon his return to the Addams mansion, and Wednesday and Pugsley return, successfully reuniting the family at last.

Just then, Debbie arrives in another car, holds the family at gunpoint, and straps them into electric chairs with the intent of killing them all.

As the Addams family members listen to her sympathetically, she admits that she killed her parents, Sharon and Dave, when she was a young ballerina, getting the Malibu Barbie doll on her 10th birthday and then, when she grew up, her first two husbands for incredibly frivolous and materialistic reasons.

Meanwhile, Pubert, now restored to his normal, pale and mustachioed self, escapes from his crib with a knife and reaches the rest of the family via a series of improbable events.

As Debbie pushes the switch down to electrocute the Addamses, Pubert connects two loose wires that route the electrical current through her instead, burning her body to ashes and leaving only her shoes and credit cards intact by rescuing the rest of his family members from their ultimate death sentences planned by her.

Some time later, the Addamses and their relatives gather to celebrate Pubert’s first birthday, with Joel also attending.

Fester laments Debbie’s loss, but soon becomes smitten with Dementia, a new nanny whom Cousin Itt and his wife Margaret Alford have hired to care for their child.

Out in the family graveyard, Wednesday tells Joel that Debbie was a sloppy killer, and that Wednesday would have scared her victim to death and made sure not to be caught.

As Joel lays flowers on Debbie’s grave, a hand emerges from the earth and grabs him, prompting Wednesday to smile as he screams in the end.



Also Known As

  • (original title): Addams Family Values
  • Argentina: Los locos Addams II
  • Australia: Addams Family Values
  • Brazil: A Família Addams 2
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