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Addams Family Values
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Directed by	Barry Sonnenfeld
Produced by	Scott Rudin
Written by	Charles Addams(characters) Paul Rudnick
Starring	Raul Julia Angelica Huston Christopher Lloyd Joan Cusack Christina Ricci Carol Kane Jimmy Workman Kaitlyn and Kristen Hooper Carel Struycken
Music by	Marc Shaiman Ralph Sall
Cinematography	Donald Peterman
Editing by	Jim Miller Arthur Schmidt
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	November 19, 1993
Running time	94 min.
Country	USA
Language	English
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Addams Family Values (1993) is an Academy Award-nominated sequel to the 1991 comedy The Addams Family. The movie was written by Paul Rudnick and directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, and many cast members from the original returned for the sequel.

Raúl Juliá, Anjelica Huston, Christopher Lloyd, Christina Ricci, Christopher Hart, Carel Struycken and Jimmy Workman, who all reprise their roles as, respectively, Gomez, Morticia, Fester, Wednesday Addams, Thing, Lurch and Pugsley. In addition, Dana Ivey's character, Margaret Addams (Alford in the original film; now married to Cousin Itt) makes a return appearance.

Carol Kane replaces Judith Malina in the role of Grandmama Addams. Joan Cusack co-stars as professional black widow Debbie Jellinsky, and David Krumholtz plays Wednesday's love interest, Joel Glicker.

Christine Baranski, Peter MacNicol, Mercedes McNab, and Harriet Sansom Harris have supporting roles; Peter Graves, director Barry Sonnenfeld, Nathan Lane, Tony Shalhoub and David Hyde Pierce have cameo roles. Compared to the previous movie, which has a madcap approach comparable to the 1960s sitcom, Values is darker and more macabre, more like Charles Addams' original comic strips.

Contents 1 Plot synopsis 2 Trivia 3 See also 4 External links

At the beginning of the film, Morticia gives birth to a new baby boy, Pubert Addams. When Wednesday and Pugsley jealously try to kill him, Morticia and Gomez hire a nanny named Debbie Jellinsky, who is really a fortune hunter/serial killer known as "The Black Widow." She's after Uncle Fester and his money, and, when Wednesday begins to suspect, Debbie convinces Morticia to send both the older children to Camp Chippewa, a summer camp for privileged children.

Debbie marries Fester, then tries repeatedly to kill him. However, as an Addams, he's practically indestructible, and he mistakes her murder attempts for ordinary affection. Frustrated, Debbie turns nasty, and tells Fester she won't have sex with him unless he promises never to see his family again. In anguish, he agrees.

With Uncle Fester gone, Gomez goes into a decline, and Pubert comes down with a terrible disease that makes him blond, rosy, and cheerful. A horrified Gomez learns that he might even develop dimples (Not in this house! he cries). After the Addams' visit Fester only to be turned away, Gomez takes to his bed, weeping and singing Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.

Meanwhile, at camp, Wednesday and Pugsley aren't fitting in; Wednesday, however, does meet a soulmate of sorts in the person of Joel, an introverted Jewish boy plagued by allergies. When Wednesday refuses to play Pocahontas in the end-of-summer play (a salute to Thanksgiving penned by one of the counsellors and entitled A Turkey Called Brotherhood), all three "little outcasts" are locked in the "Harmony Hut" and tortured by being forced to watch a series of Disney movies. When they finally emerge, pale and dishevelled, Wednesday tells the counsellors in level tones that she wants to be perky, and sing, and dance, and be Pocahontas; she then summons up a ghastly smile, frightening the other children. During the play, however, the misfits, led by Wednesday, launch a surprise attack and take over the camp. Afterwards, Wednesday and Pugsley make their escape and hurry home.

Meanwhile, when Debbie blows up her new house with Fester inside, only to see him emerge smiling from the smoke, she loses her temper entirely, brandishes a gun, and snarls "I want you dead, and I want your money!" He escapes, with Thing at the wheel (and pedals) of Debbie's Lincoln. However, she follows him in hot pursuit to the Addams mansion, where she ties everyone to electric chairs - except Pubert, who returns to normal as soon as Fester comes home. While Debbie gives a slideshow of her past homicides, Pubert crosses the wires so when Debbie throws the switch to electrocute everyone, she is incinerated, leaving only a pile of ashes, her shoes, and a couple of credit cards.

In the epilogue, Gomez and Morticia give Pubert a birthday party. Among the guests is a potential new love for Fester, a bald nanny named Dementia. Joel, dressed like Gomez, also attends. Later, Joel and Wednesday are in the graveyard. He asks her if she would ever want to get married and have children, to which she flatly says no. He then asks her, "What if you found a guy who would do anything for you, who would be your devoted slave?" and she responds, "I'd pity him." Joel lets the subject drop and kneels in front of Debbie's grave, lamenting her psychotic nature. Wednesday informs him that Debbie wasn't psychotic, but sloppy, and that if she, Wednesday, wanted to kill her husband, she would do so, and wouldn't be caught. Joel asks her how, and she replies, "I'd scare him to death." Joel laughs this off, and proceeds to place flowers on Debbie's grave. Before he can, however, Debbie's reintegrated hand, or possibly Thing, bursts out of the ground and grabs Joel's arm, while Wednesday looks on, satisfied with Joel's screams.

• Mercedes McNab, who appeared as the girl scout in the first film, appears as the character Amanda Buckman.
• David Hyde Pierce, Tony Shalhoub, Christine Baranski, Nathan Lane and Harriet Sansom Harris, who have cameos in the film, also appear in the television show Frasier.
• Grandmama Addams makes a reference to Pubert possibly growing up to be a lawyer at which Gomez cries out in horror. In the original television series, however, Gomez was a lawyer.
• Peter MacNicol, who plays camp counselor Gary Granger, and David Krumholtz, who played Joel Glicker, would later star in NUMB3RS together. Ironically, they hate each other in Addams Family Values, but are best friends and co-workers in Numb3rs.

• Addams Family Values: Music from the Motion Picture
• Addams Family Values: The Original Orchestral Score

• Addams Family Values at the Internet Movie Database

The Addams Family
Characters
Gomez Addams | Morticia Addams | Pugsley Addams | Wednesday Addams | Uncle Fester | Grandmama | Lurch | Thing | Cousin Itt
TV
The Addams Family | The New Addams Family
Films
The Addams Family (1991) | Addams Family Values (1993) | Addams Family Reunion (1998)
Games
Fester's Quest (1989) | The Addams Family (pinball) (1991) | Addams Family (1992) | The Addams Family: Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt (1993) | Addams Family Values (1994) | Addams Family (1994)