Addams Family Values

"The family just got a little stranger."

1993 1h 34m EN

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★7.0TMDB · 3,435

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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.

“The family just got a little stranger.”

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Cast

Anjelica Huston
Morticia Addams
Raúl Juliá
Gomez Addams
Christopher Lloyd
Uncle Fester
Joan Cusack
Debbie Jellinsky
Christina Ricci
Wednesday Addams
Carol Kane
Granny
Jimmy Workman
Pugsley Addams
David Krumholtz
Joel Glicker

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Writers: Paul Rudnick, Paul Rudnick
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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ERA

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33 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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CINEMA

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Part of the "Addams Family Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, shot by Donald Peterman. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Marc Shaiman. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Jim Miller shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Anjelica Huston and Raúl Juliá and Christopher Lloyd carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "The family just got a little stranger.".

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IMDB entry: tt0106220 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Barry Sonnenfeld directs. Donald Peterman behind the camera. Marc Shaiman scores. Jim Miller cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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133 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
2Part of the "Addams Family Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
3Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, shot by Donald Peterman. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Marc Shaiman. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor Jim Miller shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Anjelica Huston and Raúl Juliá and Christopher Lloyd carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "The family just got a little stranger.".
8IMDB entry: tt0106220 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Classified under 18 themes, including "dancing", "jealousy", "baby", "sibling relationship".
10Released under 14 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Donald Peterman
Original score: Marc Shaiman
Editing: Jim Miller
Production design: Ken Adam
Costume design: Theoni V. Aldredge
Makeup / hair: Kim Santantonio
Sound: Robert J. Litt
Stunt coordinator: Gary Hymes
Runtime: 94 min · 1h 34m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $47,000,000
Box office: $48,919,043
Return: 104% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Addams Family Values (1993)

Part of

Addams Family Collection

The Addams Family started as a Cartoon in 1938. A TV Sitcom ran between 1964 and 1966, and a TV movie with the same cast in 1977. A 1991 American fantasy comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld was followed by a sequel in 1993, with a TV cartoon in the intervening years. A 1998 film was a soft reboot with a different cast, which led to a short-lived live-action TV Sitcom shortly after. A CGI Cartoon Feature Film rebooted the franchise in 2019.

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Gimly2018-10-06
★ 6/10
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.
CinemaSerf2024-04-16
★ 7/10
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"!