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The Addams Family is a fictional family created by American cartoonist Charles Addams. They originally appeared in a series of 150 unrelated single-panel comics, about half of which were originally published in The New Yorker over a 50-year period from their inception in 1938. They have since been adapted to other media, such as television, film, video games, comic books, a musical, and merchandise.

The Addams Family
The Addams Family in the 1964 TV series.
Created by	Charles Addams
Original work	The New Yorker cartoons
Owner	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (current rights holder) Orion Pictures (original TV series and 1991 film) Warner Bros. Entertainment (Hanna-Barbera 1973 & 1992 TV series, Scooby Doo crossover and 1998 film) Paramount Pictures (1991 & 1993 films) Disney Platform Distribution (1998 TV series)
Print publications
Comics	See below (1938)
Films and television
Film(s)	The Addams Family (1991) Addams Family Values (1993) The Addams Family (2019) The Addams Family 2 (2021)
Short film(s)	The Addams Family Fun-House (1973)
Television series	The Addams Family (1964–1966) The Addams Family (1973) The Addams Family (1992–1993) The New Addams Family (1998–1999) Wednesday (2022–present)
Television special(s)	The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972) Halloween with the New Addams Family (1977)
Direct-to-video	Addams Family Reunion (1998)
Theatrical presentations
Musical(s)	The Addams Family (2010)
Games
Video game(s)	List of video games
Audio
Soundtrack(s)	The Addams Family

The Addamses are a satirical inversion of the ideal postwar American middle-class nuclear family: an odd old money clan who delight in the macabre and are seemingly unaware or unconcerned that other people find them bizarre or frightening. The family members were unnamed until the 1964 television series. The Addams Family consists of Gomez and Morticia Addams, their children, Wednesday and Pugsley, and close family members, Uncle Fester^[a] and Grandmama,^[b] their butler Lurch, and Pugsley’s pet octopus, Aristotle. The dimly seen Thing (later a disembodied hand) was introduced in 1954, and Gomez’s Cousin Itt, Morticia’s pet lion Kitty Kat and Morticia’s carnivorous plant Cleopatra in 1964. Pubert Addams, Wednesday and Pugsley’s infant brother, was introduced in the 1993 film Addams Family Values.^[c]

In 1964, the live-action television series premiered on ABC and ran for two seasons. It subsequently inspired a telefilm titled Halloween with the New Addams Family and cameos from the cast in other shows. An unrelated animated series aired in 1973. The franchise was revived in the 1990s with a feature film series consisting of The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993). The films inspired a second animated series (1992–1993) which is set in the same fictional universe. The series was rebooted with a 1998 direct-to-video film and a spin-off live-action television series (1998–1999). In 2010, a live musical adaptation featuring Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth opened on Broadway and was nominated for two Tony Awards and eight Drama Desk Awards. The series again rebooted in 2019 with the animated film The Addams Family, which led to a sequel in 2021. In 2022, Netflix debuted the original series Wednesday.

The franchise has become a staple of popular culture. It has spawned a video game series, academic books, and soundtracks which are based around its Grammy-nominated theme song. They have had a profound influence on American comics, cinema and television, and are seen as an inspiration for the goth subculture and its fashion.

HistoryEdit

Original The New Yorker cartoons (1938–1964)Edit

Charles Addams began as a cartoonist in The New Yorker with a sketch of a window washer that ran on February 6, 1932.^[2] The first Addams Family cartoon was published in 1938, in a one-panel gag format. Charles Addams became a regular contributor to The New Yorker, and drew approximately 1,300 cartoons between then and his death in 1988. 58 of these would feature the Addams Family, almost all of which were published in the 1940s and 1950s.^[3]

Outside of The New Yorker, Addams also published several collections, the most notable being Dear Dead Days: A Family Album in 1959. The editor of The New Yorker, William Shawn, prevented any further Addams family cartoons from being printed after the 1964 launch of the television franchise.^[3]

Science fiction writer Ray Bradbury created a series of tales chronicling a family of Illinois monsters, the Elliotts, that bear a strong resemblance to the Addams family. These stories were anthologized in From the Dust Returned (2001), with a connecting narrative, an explanation of his work with Addams, and a 1946 illustration Addams drew for Bradbury’s short story «Homecoming» in Mademoiselle magazine, the first in the Elliot family series.

TV adaptations and rise to popularity (1964–1977)Edit

A 1964 television adaptation brought the series to a much wider audience and was well received. Producer Nat Perrin took a «less evil» approach to the characters and stories than Addams had in the cartoons, emphasizing lighter, more comedic elements. Stephen Cox later referred to the series as «more zany than spooky». The popular series, broadcast on the ABC network, ran only two seasons.

The franchise remained in the popular consciousness even after the series concluded, with the «Lurch» dance move remaining popular through the 1960s for example. The television series was often re-run through television syndication for years afterward, in some areas continuing to broadcast as late as 1991. It was followed by a 1972 crossover appearance in Scooby-Doo and a 1973 animated series. The animated incarnation featured a new cast except for Felix Silla, who returned as Cousin Itt. A one-shot special, Halloween with the New Addams Family, reunited most of the original cast from the 1964 series.^[3]

Film series and TV reboots (1991–1999)Edit

The franchise was largely inactive throughout the 1980s. The 1987 retirement of William Shawn allowed a brief return of the cartoons to The New Yorker, though Charles Addams himself died only a year later.

Two live-action films were directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and released in the early 1990s, featuring a new cast. While the 1991 film received mixed reviews from critics, it performed reasonably well at the box office. A second film in 1993, Addams Family Values, had the inverse reception. It was highly regarded by critics but, unexpectedly, performed poorly at the box office, and earned less than half the revenue of its predecessor. This, and the sudden death of Gomez actor Raul Julia in 1994, prevented Sonnenfeld from producing further films.^[3] Both received nominations for Academy Awards, BAFTA Awards, and Hugo Awards. For her role as Morticia, Anjelica Huston was twice nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, and Raul Julia (as Gomez), Christina Ricci (as Wednesday), Christopher Lloyd (as Fester), and Joan Cusack (as Fester’s wife, Debbie Jellinsky, in the sequel) received multiple Saturn Award and American Comedy Award nominations for their portrayals.

Following the wave of interest in the franchise, a 1992 animated television series notably saw John Astin reprise his role as Gomez, almost thirty years after his first appearance in the role in 1964. It was nominated for four Daytime Emmy Awards, including one for Astin.

A direct-to-video film, The Addams Family Reunion, was produced by Saban Entertainment in 1998 and featured a returning Carel Struycken as Lurch, though was otherwise unrelated to the Sonnenfeld films and was very poorly received. The film was intended as the pilot to a Canadian-produced live-action television series, The New Addams Family, which in the event was made with a mostly different cast and aired until the following year.^[4] Astin, then in his late 60s, returned as Grandpapa Addams in the TV series, rather than Gomez, who was played by Glenn Taranto.^[5]

Animated revivalEdit

A Tim Burton stop-motion film was announced in 2010 but never developed. Instead, a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animated film was announced in 2013. Unlike the Burton version, this would use 3D computer animation. The film was eventually released in 2019, to a moderate box-office reception. A sequel, released in 2021 amid the COVID-19 pandemic, was far less successful. The first film received mixed audience reception, while the second film received negative audience reception with the two films scoring 45% and 28% on review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, respectively.

Premise and backgroundEdit

Gomez and Pugsley are enthusiastic. Morticia is even in disposition, muted, witty, sometimes deadly. Grandma Frump is foolishly good-natured. Wednesday is her mother’s daughter. A closely-knit family, the real head being Morticia—although each of the others is a definite character—except for Grandma, who is easily led. Many of the troubles they have as a family are due to Grandma’s fumbling, weak character. The house is a wreck, of course, but this is a house-proud family just the same and every trap door is in good repair. Money is no problem.

— Charles Addams^[1]

The family appears to be a branch of an extensive Addams clan with relatives all over the world. In the original television series they are said to be related to «those one-D Adamses», a fact the family are deeply ashamed of. According to the film version, the family credo is, Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc (pseudo-Latin: «We gladly feast on those who would subdue us»). Charles Addams was first inspired by his hometown of Westfield, New Jersey, an area full of ornate Victorian mansions and archaic graveyards.^[6] In the original comics series they live in a gothic house on Cemetery Ridge. According to the television series, the residence is a gloomy mansion adjacent to a cemetery and a swamp located in an unspecified American town. In the musical (first shown in Chicago in 2009), the house is located in Central Park.^[7] In the 2019 film, the Addamses live in an abandoned asylum located in the outskirts of the state of New Jersey which is haunted by a disembodied resident who demands the property to remain undisturbed.

Although most of the humor derives from the fact that they share macabre interests, such as putting each other and themselves in the way of bodily harm (none of which seems to have an effect), the Addamses are not evil. They are a close-knit extended family. Morticia is an exemplary mother, and she and Gomez remain passionate towards each other; as established in the television series, she calls him «bubbeleh»,^[8] to which he responds by kissing her arms, behavior which Morticia can also provoke by speaking a few words in French (their meanings are not important; any words in French will do). The parents are supportive of their children (except in the 2019 film when Wednesday arrives home wearing a pink dress). The family is friendly and hospitable to visitors; in some cases, it is willing to donate large sums of money to causes (television series and films), despite the visitors’ horror at the Addamses’ peculiar lifestyle. The characters were unnamed until the advent of the 1964 television adaptation, except for Wednesday and Morticia who were first named for a 1962 licensed doll collection.^[3]

AdaptationsEdit

TelevisionEdit

The Addams Family (1964–1966)Edit

In 1964, the ABC TV network created The Addams Family television series based on Addams’s cartoon characters. The series was shot in black-and-white and aired for two seasons in 64 half-hour episodes (September 18, 1964 – September 2, 1966). During the original television run of The Addams Family television series, The New Yorker editor William Shawn refused to publish any Addams Family cartoons. However, he continued to publish other Charles Addams cartoons. Shawn regarded his magazine as targeting a more refined readership and he did not want it to be associated with characters who could be seen on television by the more general public. After Shawn’s 1987 retirement, the characters were welcomed back to The New Yorker.

The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972)Edit

The Addams Family’s first animated appearance was on the third episode of Hanna-Barbera’s The New Scooby-Doo Movies, «Scooby-Doo Meets the Addams Family» (a.k.a. «Wednesday is Missing»), which first aired on CBS Saturday morning, on September 23, 1972. Four members of the original cast (John Astin, Carolyn Jones, Jackie Coogan, and Ted Cassidy) returned for the special, which involved the Addamses in a mystery with the Scooby-Doo gang. The Addams Family characters were drawn to the specifications of the original Charles Addams cartoons. After the episode aired, fans wanted more animated adventures featuring the Addamses, and Hanna-Barbera obliged.

The Addams Family Fun-House (1973)Edit

In late 1972, ABC produced a pilot for a live-action musical variety show which was titled The Addams Family Fun-House. The cast included Jack Riley and Liz Torres as Gomez and Morticia (the pair also co-wrote the special), Stubby Kaye as Uncle Fester, Pat McCormick as Lurch and Butch Patrick (who had played Eddie Munster on The Munsters) as Pugsley. Felix Silla reprised his role as Cousin Itt, connecting it to the original TV series. The pilot aired in 1973, but it was not picked up for a series.^[10]

The Addams Family (1973)Edit

The first animated series ran on Saturday mornings from 1973 to 1975 on NBC. In a departure from the original series, this series took the Addamses on the road in a Victorian-style RV. This series also marked the point where the relationships between the characters were changed so that Fester was now Gomez’s brother, and Grandmama was now Morticia’s mother (though the old relationships between the characters would be revisited in the 1977 television movie, in order to retain its continuity with the original sitcom). Although Coogan and Cassidy reprised their roles as Uncle Fester and Lurch, Astin and Jones did not; their parts were recast with Hanna-Barbera voice talents Lennie Weinrib as Gomez and Janet Waldo as Morticia, while a ten-year-old Jodie Foster provided the voice of Pugsley. Again, the characters were drawn to the specifications of the original Charles Addams cartoons. The show also had appearances from Thing, Cousin Itt, Kitty Kat and Cleopatra from the original series. The show also introduces new Addams Family’s animal companions, such as Ali the alligator, Ocho the octopus and Mr. V the vulture. One season was produced, and the second season consisted of reruns. The show’s theme music was completely different and it had no lyrics and no finger snaps, although it retained a bit of the four-note score from the live-action show.

The Addams Family Comic BookEdit

From 1974 to 1975, Gold Key Comics produced a comic book series in connection with the show, but it only lasted three issues. Each issue was adapted from a TV episode, starting with «In Search of the Boola-Boola» (October 1974).^[11]

Halloween with the New Addams Family (1977)Edit

A television reunion movie, Halloween with the New Addams Family, aired on NBC on Sunday, October 30, 1977. It features most of the original cast, except Blossom Rock, who had played Grandmama. She was still alive but was very ill at the time; Jane Rose replaced her. Veteran character actors Parley Baer and Vito Scotti, who both had recurring roles on the original series, also appeared in the movie. The movie has a slightly different version of the theme song; the finger snaps are used but not the lyrics.

Gomez and Morticia have had two more children, Wednesday Jr. and Pugsley Jr., who strongly resemble their older siblings. Gomez’s brother, Pancho, is staying with the family while Gomez attends a lodge meeting in Tombstone, Arizona. Gomez is jealous of his brother, who once courted Morticia. Halloween is nigh, and Pancho tells the children the legend of the Great Pumpkin-like character of Cousin Shy, who distributes gifts and carves pumpkins for good children on Halloween night. Wednesday (now called «Wednesday, Sr.») is home from music academy, where she is studying the piccolo (breaking glass with it). Pugsley (now «Pugsley, Sr.») is home from Nairobi medical school, where he is training to be a witch doctor. The family’s home has been bugged by a gang of crooks which intends to steal the family’s fortune. Lafferty, the boss, sends a gang member named Mikey into the house to investigate. Mikey panics and flees after treading on the tail of Kitty Kat the lion. The crooks employ a fake Gomez and Morticia to help them carry out their plans, along with two strong-arm goons, Hercules and Atlas. Gomez returns home to celebrate the Halloween party and trim the scarecrow. Lafferty poses as Quincy Addams (from Boston) to gain entrance to the house during the party. He has his men tie up Gomez and Morticia, and his doubles take their places, confusing Pancho, who is still in love with Morticia, and Ophelia, who is still in love with Gomez. Gomez and Morticia escape (thanks to the «Old Piccolo Game»), and rejoin the party, only to have Lafferty use various methods to try to get rid of them. Lurch scares off the thugs and terrifies Lafferty’s other assistant. Fester, trying to be nice, puts Lafferty on the rack. Lafferty tries to escape through the secret passage and steps on Kitty Kat’s tail. When the police arrive, the crooks gladly surrender. The Addamses are then free to celebrate Halloween happily, ending the night by singing together in welcome for Cousin Shy.

The Addams Family: The Animated Series (1992–1993)Edit

The remake series ran on Saturday mornings from 1992 to 1993 on ABC after producers realized the success of the 1991 Addams Family movie. This series returned to the familiar format of the original series, with the Addams Family facing their sitcom situations at home. John Astin returned to the role of Gomez, and celebrities Rip Taylor and Carol Channing took over the roles of Fester and Grandmama, respectively. Veteran voice actors Jim Cummings, Debi Derryberry, Jeannie Elias and Pat Fraley did the voices of Lurch, Wednesday, Pugsley and Cousin Itt, respectively. New artistic models of the characters were used for this series, though still having a passing resemblance to the original cartoons. Two seasons were produced, with the third year containing reruns. Oddly in this series, Wednesday maintained her macabre, brooding attitude from the Addams Family movies. Still, her facial expressions and body language conveyed the happy-go-lucky, fun attitude of her portrayal in the original television show. The original Vic Mizzy theme song, although slightly different, was used for the opening.

The New Addams Family (1998–1999)Edit

The New Addams Family was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and ran for 65 episodes (one more than the original TV series) during the 1998–1999 season on the then-newly launched Fox Family Channel. Many storylines from the original series were reworked for this new series, incorporating more modern elements and jokes. John Astin returned to the franchise in some episodes of this series, albeit as «Grandpapa» Addams (Gomez’s grandfather, a character introduced in Addams Family Reunion). The cast included Glenn Taranto as Gomez Addams, Ellie Harvie as Morticia, Michael Roberds as Fester, Brody Smith as Pugsley, Nicole Fugere (the only cast member from Addams Family Reunion to return) as Wednesday, John DeSantis as Lurch, Betty Phillips as Grandmama and Steven Fox as Thing.

Wednesday (2022)Edit

In 2021, Netflix announced a live-action TV series adaptation based on the character of Wednesday Addams, starring Jenna Ortega as the title character. Produced by MGM Television, with Alfred Gough and Miles Millar as showrunners and Tim Burton as series director in his first televised directorial effort.^[12] Wednesday, a student at Nevermore Academy, solves mysteries using her psychic ability. These include murders and a 25-year-old mystery involving her family.^[13] Luis Guzmán stars as Gomez,^[14] and Catherine Zeta-Jones stars as Morticia.^[15] In addition, Fred Armisen appears as Uncle Fester, George Burcea as Lurch, Victor Dorobantu as Thing, and Isaac Ordonez as Pugsley. Hunter Doohan, Georgie Farmer, Moosa Mostafa, Emma Myers, Naomi J. Ogawa, Joy Sunday, Percy Hynes White, Thora Birch, Riki Lindhome, Jamie McShane and Gwendoline Christie were also added to the cast as series regulars.^[16][17] In March 2022, Christina Ricci, who portrayed Wednesday in The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993), had joined the cast as a series regular.^[18]

Feature filmsEdit

Crew/detail	Live action	Animated
The Addams Family (1991)	Addams Family Values (1993)	Addams Family Reunion (1998)	The Addams Family (2019)	The Addams Family 2 (2021)
Director	Barry Sonnenfeld	Dave Payne	Conrad Vernon Greg Tiernan	Conrad Vernon Greg Tiernan Co-directed by: Laura Brousseau Kevin Pavlovic[19]
Producer	Scott Rudin	Mike Elliott	Gail Berman Conrad Vernon Alex Schwartz Alison O’Brien	Gail Berman Conrad Vernon Danielle Sterling Alison O’Brien
Writer(s)	Caroline Thompson Larry Wilson	Paul Rudnick	Rob Kerchner Scott Sandin	Screenplay by: Matt Lieberman Story by: Matt Lieberman Erica Rivinoja Conrad Vernon	Screenplay by: Dan Hernandez Benji Samit Ben Queen Susanna Fogel Story by: Dan Hernandez Benji Samit
Based on	The Addams Family by Charles Addams
Composer	Marc Shaiman	Amotz Plessner	Mychael Danna Jeff Danna
Cinematography	Owen Roizman	Donald Peterman	Christian Sebaldt	—
Editor(s)	Dede Allen	Arthur Schmidt Jim Miller	J. J. Jackson	David Ian Salter	Ryan Folsey
Production company	Paramount Pictures Scott Rudin Productions	Scott Rudin Productions	Saban Entertainment	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Bron Creative Nitrogen Studios Cinesite Studios The Jackal Group	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Bron Creative Nitrogen Studios Cinesite Studios The Jackal Group Glickmania
Distributor	Paramount Pictures (United States and Latin America) Columbia Pictures (International)[20]	Paramount Pictures	Warner Home Video	United Artists Releasing (United States) Universal Pictures (International)
Runtime	99 minutes	94 minutes	91 minutes	87 minutes	93 minutes
Release date	November 22, 1991	November 19, 1993	September 22, 1998	October 11, 2019	October 1, 2021

The Addams Family (1991)Edit

In the 1990s, Orion Pictures (which by then had inherited the rights to the series) developed a film version, The Addams Family (released on November 22, 1991). Because of the studio’s financial troubles at the time, Orion sold the US rights to the film to Paramount Pictures. On October 1, 2019, Paramount Pictures^[21] released double feature of Addams Family and Addams Family Values on Blu-ray in the United States.

Addams Family Values (1993)Edit

Upon the last film’s success, a sequel followed: Addams Family Values (released on November 19, 1993, with worldwide distribution by Paramount). Loosened content restrictions allowed the films to use far more grotesque humor that strove to keep the Addams cartoons’ original spirit (in fact, several gags were lifted straight from the single-panel cartoons). The two films used the same cast, except for Grandmama, played by Judith Malina and Carol Kane in the first and second films, respectively. A script for a third film was prepared in 1994, but was abandoned after the sudden death of actor Raul Julia that year.

Addams Family Reunion (1998)Edit

Another film, Addams Family Reunion, was released direct-to-video on September 22, 1998, this time by Warner Bros. through its video division. It has no relation to the Paramount movies, being in fact a full-length pilot for a second live-action television version, The New Addams Family, produced and shot in Canada. The third movie’s Gomez, played by Tim Curry, follows the style of Raul Julia, while the new sitcom’s Gomez, played by Glenn Taranto, is played in the style of John Astin, who had played the character in the 1960s. The only actors in this Warner Bros./Saban Entertainment production to have played in the previous Paramount films were Carel Struycken as Lurch and Christopher Hart as Thing.

Cancelled filmEdit

In 2010, it was announced that Illumination Entertainment, in partnership with Universal Pictures, had acquired the underlying rights to the Addams Family drawings.^[22] The film was planned to be a stop-motion animated film based on Charles Addams’s original drawings. Tim Burton was set to co-write and co-produce the film, with a possibility to direct.^[23] In July 2013 however, it was reported that the film was cancelled.^[24]

The Addams Family (2019) and The Addams Family 2 (2021)Edit

On October 31, 2013, it was announced in Variety that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will be reviving The Addams Family as an animated film with Pamela Pettler to write the screenplay and Andrew Mittman and Kevin Miserocchi to executive produce the film and they were in final negotiations with BermanBraun’s Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun to produce it.^[25] By October 2017, Conrad Vernon had been hired to direct the film, which he will also produce along with Berman and Alex Schwartz, based on a screenplay written by Pettler, with revisions by Matt Lieberman.^[26] The film was released on October 11, 2019.^[27] On October 8, 2020, MGM announced that a sequel is in the works with an announcement trailer.^[28] The original cast set to return. Bill Hader and Javon «Wanna» Walton have also been cast to voice. Bill Hader played a new character named Dr. Cyrus Strange, while Javon replaced Finn Wolfhard as the voice of Pugsley Addams. Directors Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon returned as directors. The film was released on October 1, 2021.^[29]

Homages and adaptationsEdit

• An animated television homage was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. Mr. & Mrs. J. Evil Scientist, a family of fictional characters inspired by The Addams Family appeared on the Snagglepuss and Snooper and Blabber animated television series beginning in 1959 and it also starred in its own comic book.
• Comedian Melissa Hunter wrote the web series Adult Wednesday Addams, which is a comedic adaptation of the franchise.^[30] Hunter was forced to remove the series due to legal action.
• In an episode of Horrible Histories a song titled «The Borgia Family» was created in reference to the Addams Family Theme.
• In 1964, the year The Addams Family debuted, Hanna-Barbera introduced Weirdly and Creepella Gruesome and family, based in part on Mr. & Mrs. J. Evil Scientist and in part on the Addamses, as recurrent characters on The Flintstones.^[31]

Video gamesEdit

Ten video games released from 1989 to 2021 were based on The Addams Family.

• Fester’s Quest (1989) is a top-down adventure game that features Uncle Fester.
• The Addams Family LCD Video Game by Tiger Electronics is a handheld unit released in 1991.
• ICOM Simulations published The Addams Family video game for the TurboGrafx-CD in 1991.
• In 1992, two versions of The Addams Family were released by Ocean Software based on the 1991 movie: an 8-bit version for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear, ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64, and a 16-bit version released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Amiga, Atari ST and Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
• The games’ sequel, The Addams Family: Pugsley’s Scavenger Hunt (1993), also by Ocean Software, was based on the ABC animated series and was released for SNES, NES, and Game Boy (although the latter two are 8-bit remakes of the first SNES game, swapping Pugsley’s and Gomez’s roles).
• Addams Family Values (1994) by Ocean is based on the movie sequel and returns to the style of gameplay seen in Fester’s Quest.
• An arcade shocker, The New Addams Family Electric Shock Machine (also known as Electrifying), was released by Eurocom and Nova Productions in 1999.
• A Game Boy Color game was released in 2001 for promotion of The New Addams Family. The game was titled The New Addams Family Series. In this game, the Addams mansion had been bought by a fictional company called «Funnyday» that wanted to tear down the house and surrounding grounds to make room for an amusement park.
• A 2019 mobile game for Android and iOS, The Addams Family Mystery Mansion, was released by Animoca.^[32]
• The Addams Family: Mansion Mayhem, a movie tie-in game for Steam, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox and Google Stadia developed by PHL Collective and published by British publisher Outright Games, was released on September 24, 2021.

PinballEdit

A pinball game by Midway (under the Bally label) was released in 1992 shortly after the movie. It is the best-selling pinball game of all time.^[33]

BooksEdit

The Addams FamilyEdit

This first novelisation of the television series, written by Jack Sharkey, was released near the end of the show’s second season. The book details the family’s arrival in their new home and explains how it got its bizarre décor. The arrival and origins of Thing are explained. Each chapter reads as a self-contained story, like episodes of the television show. The novel concludes with the Addams family discovering that their lives will be the basis for a new television series. It was published in paperback by Pyramid Books in 1965.^[34]

The Addams Family Strikes BackEdit

The Addams Family Strikes Back by W.F. Miksch tells how Gomez plans to rehabilitate the image of Benedict Arnold by running for the local school board. The tone and characterizations in this book resemble the TV characters much more closely than in the first novel. Cousin Itt appears as a minor character in this story, but as a tiny, three-legged creature rather than the hairy, derby-hatted character seen on television and in the movies. The novel was published in paperback form by Pyramid Books in 1965.^[34]

The Addams Family: An EvilutionEdit

The Addams Family: An Evilution is a book about the «evilution» of The Addams Family characters, with more than 200 published and previously unpublished cartoons, and includes text by Charles Addams and H. Kevin Miserocchi, Director of the Tee and Charles Addams Foundation. Pomegranate Press published the book in 2010.

AdvertisingEdit

In 1994, the actors cast as the Addamses in the first two films (sans the recently deceased Raul Julia) were in several Japanese television spots for the Honda Odyssey.^[35] The Addamses are seen speaking Japanese—most prominently Gomez (for whom a voice actor was used to impersonate Julia while footage from Addams Family Values was seen) and Morticia.^[36]

In 2007 and 2008, the Addams Family appeared as M&M’s in an advertising campaign for M&M’s Dark Chocolate.^[37]

SoundtrackEdit

A theme song for the 1964 TV series as well as a soundtrack album the next year were released, both composed by Vic Mizzy and the latter containing all of his compositions for the series entitled Original Music From The Addams Family.^[38]

MusicalEdit

The Addams FamilyEdit

In May 2007, it was announced that a musical inspired by The Addams Family drawings by Charles Addams was being developed for the Broadway stage. Broadway veterans Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice wrote the book, and Andrew Lippa wrote the score. Julian Crouch and Phelim McDermott (Improbable theatre founders) directed and designed the production, with choreography by Sergio Trujillo.^[39] A workshop and private industry presentation was held August 4–8, 2008. Featured in the cast were Bebe Neuwirth as Morticia, Krysta Rodriguez as Wednesday, and Nathan Lane as Gomez. In addition, Kevin Chamberlin played Uncle Fester and Zachary James played Lurch.

The musical opened in previews at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Broadway on March 8, 2010, with an official opening on April 8,^[40] after an out-of-town tryout in Chicago at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts from November 13, 2009, to January 10, 2010.^[41][42] The cast includes Lane as Gomez, Neuwirth as Morticia, Terrence Mann as Mal Beineke, Carolee Carmello as Alice Beineke, Chamberlin as Uncle Fester, Jackie Hoffman as Grandma, Zachary James as Lurch, Krysta Rodriguez as Wednesday, and Wesley Taylor as Wednesday’s love interest, Lucas Beineke.^[43] The Broadway production ran for 22 months, closing on December 31, 2011, after 35 previews and 722 performances.^[44]

On September 5, 2016, it was announced that the musical would premiere in the UK, on a major UK and Ireland tour produced by James Yeoburn and Stuart Matthew Price for United Theatrical.^[45] The production was directed by Matthew White and it opened at Edinburgh Festival Theatre on April 20, 2017, starring Samantha Womack, Les Dennis and Carrie Hope Fletcher.^[46]

Cast and charactersEdit

Show	Gomez Addams	Morticia Addams	Pugsley Addams	Wednesday Addams	Uncle Fester	Grandmama	Lurch	Thing	Cousin Itt
The Addams Family (1964–66)	John Astin	Carolyn Jones	Ken Weatherwax	Lisa Loring	Jackie Coogan	Blossom Rock	Ted Cassidy	Ted Cassidy / Jack Voglin	Felix Silla
The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972)	John Astin	Carolyn Jones	Jodie Foster	Cindy Henderson	Jackie Coogan	Janet Waldo	Ted Cassidy		John Stephenson
The Addams Family Fun-House (1973)	Jack Riley	Liz Torres	Butch Patrick	Noelle Von Sonn	Stubby Kaye		Pat McCormick		Felix Silla
The Addams Family (1973–74)	Lennie Weinrib	Janet Waldo	Jodie Foster	Cindy Henderson	Jackie Coogan	Janet Waldo	Ted Cassidy		John Stephenson
Halloween with the New Addams Family (1977)	John Astin	Carolyn Jones	Ken Weatherwax	Lisa Loring	Jackie Coogan	Jane Rose	Ted Cassidy	Ted Cassidy	Felix Silla
The Addams Family (1991)	Raul Julia	Anjelica Huston	Jimmy Workman	Christina Ricci	Christopher Lloyd	Judith Malina	Carel Struycken	Christopher Hart	John Franklin
The Addams Family (1992–1993)	John Astin	Nancy Linari	Jeannie Elias	Debi Derryberry	Rip Taylor	Carol Channing	Jim Cummings		Pat Fraley
Addams Family Values (1993)	Raul Julia	Anjelica Huston	Jimmy Workman	Christina Ricci	Christopher Lloyd	Carol Kane	Carel Struycken	Christopher Hart	John Franklin
Addams Family Reunion (1998)	Tim Curry	Daryl Hannah	Jerry Messing	Nicole Fugere	Patrick Thomas	Alice Ghostley	Carel Struycken	Christopher Hart	Phil Fondacaro
The New Addams Family (1998–99)	Glenn Taranto	Ellie Harvie	Brody Smith	Nicole Fugere	Michael Roberds	Betty Phillips	John DeSantis	Steven Fox	David Mylrea / Paul Dobson
The Addams Family (musical) (2010)	Nathan Lane	Bebe Neuwirth	Adam Riegler	Krysta Rodriguez	Kevin Chamberlin	Jackie Hoffman	Zachary James	Fred Inkley	Fred Inkley
The Addams Family (2019)	Oscar Isaac	Charlize Theron	Finn Wolfhard	Chloë Grace Moretz	Nick Kroll	Bette Midler	Conrad Vernon		Snoop Dogg
The Addams Family 2 (2021)	Oscar Isaac	Charlize Theron	Javon «Wanna» Walton	Chloë Grace Moretz	Nick Kroll	Bette Midler	Conrad Vernon		Snoop Dogg
Wednesday (2022–)	Luis Guzmán	Catherine Zeta-Jones	Isaac Ordonez	Jenna Ortega	Fred Armisen		George Burcea	Victor Dorobantu

LegacyEdit

The family has had a profound influence on American comics, cinema and television,^[47][48][49] and it has also been seen as an inspiration for the goth subculture and its fashion.^[50][51] According to The Telegraph, the Addamses «are one of the most iconic families in American history, up there with the Kennedys».^[52] Similarly, Time has compared «the relevance and the cultural reach» of the family with those of the Kennedys and the Roosevelts, «so much a part of the American landscape that it’s difficult to discuss the country’s history without mentioning them».^[53] For TV Guide, which listed the characters in the top ten of The 60 Greatest TV Families of All Time, the Addamses «provid[ed] the design for cartoonish clans to come, like the Flintstones and the Simpsons».^[54] Owing to their popularity, the first feature-length adaptation has been identified as a «cult film»,^[55] while Addams Family Values was listed as one of The 50 Best family films by The Guardian^[56] and nominated for the American Film Institute’s 100 Years…100 Laughs at the turn of the century.^[57] Ricci’s portrayal of Wednesday in the film series was ranked one of The 100 Greatest Movie Characters by Empire,^[58] and in 2011 AOL named Morticia one of The 100 Most Memorable Female TV Characters.^[59]

See alsoEdit

• The Munsters – A franchise based on a sitcom with a similar premise.

NotesEdit

ReferencesEdit

External linksEdit

• Tee & Charles Addams Foundation
• The Addams Family (1937) at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia. Archived from the original on March 13, 2012.
• The Addams Family UK (musical website)
• The Addams Family on TVLand.com
• The New Addams Family at IMDb
• ​The Addams Family Musical​ at the Internet Broadway Database

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Addams Family
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Barry Sonnenfeld
Written by	Caroline Thompson Larry Wilson
Based on	Characters by Charles Addams
Produced by	Scott Rudin
Starring	Anjelica Huston Raul Julia Christopher Lloyd
Cinematography	Owen Roizman
Edited by	Dede Allen Jim Miller
Music by	Marc Shaiman
Production companies	Paramount Pictures[1] Scott Rudin Productions[2]
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures (North America/South America)[1][2] Columbia Pictures (International)[3]
Release date	November 22, 1991
Running time	99 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$30 million[1]
Box office	$191.5 million[4]

The Addams Family is a 1991 American supernatural black comedy film based on the characters from the cartoon created by cartoonist Charles Addams and the 1964 TV series produced by David Levy.^[5] Directed by former cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld in his screen directing debut, the film stars Anjelica Huston, who was nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance as Morticia Addams, Raul Julia as Gomez Addams, and Christopher Lloyd as Fester Addams. The film focuses on a bizarre, macabre, aristocratic family who reconnect with whom they believe to be a long-lost relative, Gomez’s brother Fester Addams.

The film was noted for its turbulent production; originally developed at Orion, the film went $5 million over budget due to constant rewrites throughout shooting; health problems of people involved in the filming and an overall stressful filming for Sonnenfeld himself, which caused multiple delays. The rise in production costs from the film’s $25 million budget to $30 million led Orion, financially struggling and fearful of another big-budget flop, to sell the film to Paramount, who completed the film and handled the film’s domestic distribution, while Orion distributed the film internationally through Columbia Pictures. The film was commercially successful, making back almost seven times its production costs, and was followed by a sequel, Addams Family Values, two years later.

Plot[edit]

Gomez Addams laments the 25-year absence of his brother Fester, who disappeared after the two had a falling-out. Gomez’s lawyer Tully Alford owes money to loan shark/con artist Abigail Craven, and notices that her adopted son Gordon closely resembles Fester. Tully proposes that Gordon pose as Fester to infiltrate the Addams household and find the hidden vault where they keep their vast riches. Tully and his wife Margaret attend a séance at the Addams home led by Grandmama in which the family tries to contact Fester’s spirit. Gordon arrives, posing as Fester, while Abigail poses as a German psychiatrist named Dr. Greta Pinder-Schloss and tells the family that Fester had been lost in the Bermuda Triangle for the past 25 years until she found him in some tuna nets.

Gomez, overjoyed to have «Fester» back, takes him to the family vault to view home movies from their childhood. Gordon learns the reason for the brothers’ falling-out: Gomez was jealous of Fester’s success with women, and wooed the conjoined twins Flora and Fauna Amor away from him out of envy. Gomez starts to suspect that «Fester» is an impostor when he is unable to recall important details about their past. Gordon attempts to return to the vault, but is unable to get past a booby trap. Gomez’s wife Morticia reminds «Fester» of the importance of family among the Addamses and of their vengeance against those who cross them. Fearing that the family is getting wise to their con, Abigail (under the guise of Dr. Pinder-Schloss) convinces Gomez that his suspicions are due to displacement.

Gordon grows closer to the Addams family, particularly the children Wednesday and Pugsley, whom he helps to prepare a swordplay sequence for a school play. Abigail had insisted that Gordon not attend the play, but after feeling deeply saddened by this, he attends anyway. After the play, Dr. Pinder-Schloss insists that «Fester» must once again leave, so the Addamses throw a large party with their extended family and friends, during which Abigail plans to break into the vault. Wednesday overhears Abigail and Gordon discussing the plan, and escapes them by hiding in the family cemetery. Tully learns that as the elder brother, Fester is the executor of the Addams estate and therefore technically owns the entire property. With help from the Addamses’ neighbor Judge George Womack, whom Gomez has repeatedly infuriated by hitting golf balls into his house, Tully procures a restraining order against the family, banning them from the estate. Gomez attempts to fight the order in court, but Judge Womack rules against him out of spite.

While Abigail, Gordon, and Tully try repeatedly and unsuccessfully to get past the booby trap blocking access to the vault, the Addamses are forced to move into a motel and find jobs. Morticia tries to be a preschool teacher, Wednesday and Pugsley sell toxic lemonade, and Thing—the family’s animated disembodied hand—becomes a courier. Despondent, Gomez sinks into depression and lethargy.

Morticia returns to the Addams home to confront Gordon and is captured by Abigail and Tully, who torture her in an attempt to learn how to access the vault. Thing observes this and informs Gomez, using Morse code, who then rushes to Morticia’s rescue. Abigail threatens Morticia’s life if Gomez does not surrender the family fortune. Fed up with his mother’s behavior and constant berating, Gordon turns against her. Using a magical book which projects its contents into reality, he unleashes a hurricane into the house, which strikes his own head with lightning and launches Tully and Abigail out of a window and into open graves dug for them by Wednesday and Pugsley.

The movie ends with a coda, taking place seven months later at Halloween. The family states that Gordon was really Fester all along, and that the previously made-up story about Fester being found in the tuna nets after being lost in the Bermuda Triangle is true. They further state that Fester had suffered from amnesia the whole time and only recovered his memories after being struck by lightning. With the family whole again as they play «Wake the Dead», Morticia informs Gomez that she is pregnant.

Cast[edit]

• Anjelica Huston as Morticia Addams
• Raul Julia as Gomez Addams
• Christopher Lloyd as Uncle Fester Addams / Gordon Craven
• Christina Ricci as Wednesday Addams
• Jimmy Workman as Pugsley Addams
• Judith Malina as Grandmama
• Carel Struycken as Lurch
• Christopher Hart as Thing
• John Franklin as Cousin Itt
• Elizabeth Wilson as Abigail Craven
• Dan Hedaya as Tully Alford
• Dana Ivey as Margaret Alford
• Paul Benedict as Judge George Womack
• Allegra Kent as Cousin Ophelia Frump
• Mercedes McNab as Girl Scout
• Sally Jessy Raphael as Herself

Barry Sonnenfeld makes an uncredited cameo as a passenger on Gomez’s train.^{[citation needed]}

Production[edit]

Pre-production[edit]

Scott Rudin, a development executive at 20th Century Fox, pitched to the studio an adaptation of Charles Addams’ The Addams Family cartoons, and the studio enthusiastically agreed that the cartoons would make a good film, and set out to purchase the rights. However, Fox would ultimately not make the film, as Orion Pictures, who owned the film rights to The Addams Family, would not sell the property, as they were planning on producing a rebooted TV series. Further crucial property rights were owned by Charles Addams’ widow.^[1] Another difficulty in getting the film produced was the relative obscurity of The Addams Family 1964 TV series, as compared to the better-known (due to syndication) series, The Munsters. The production finally moved forward when Addams’ widow sold the remaining rights to Orion, who put the film in production with Rudin producing.^[1] Tim Burton and Terry Gilliam were approached to direct the film but both declined.^[6]

Casting[edit]

Anjelica Huston said she based aspects of her performance on her friend Jerry Hall to give the character more warmth. Huston said she would have expected the role to go to Cher, but was a longtime fan of Morticia.^[7]

Writing[edit]

Caroline Thompson and Larry Wilson wrote the first draft of the screenplay, which was extensively rewritten later by other writers, including Paul Rudnick, who later wrote Addams Family Values.^[1]

In a 2012 interview, Sonnenfeld recalled that he had originally intended that it be unclear whether Fester really was an imposter or not, but the actors strongly opposed the notion and selected then 10-year-old Christina Ricci («Wednesday Addams») to speak on their behalf. Ricci «gave this really impassioned plea that Fester shouldn’t be an imposter… so we ended up totally changing that plot point to make the actors happy. And they were right – it was the better way to go».^[8]

Special effects[edit]

Makeup and animatronic effects for the film were handled by Tony Gardner and his company Alterian, Inc.

Filming[edit]

After Tim Burton passed on directing the film because he was busy filming Batman Returns, the sequel to the 1989 film Batman, at the time, Barry Sonnenfeld took the job.^[1] According to Sonnenfeld, Terry Gilliam was also offered to direct the film, which he turned down.^[9] His first directing job after previously serving as director of photography for several major films, Sonnenfeld experienced much stress during filming.^[1] Most of the film was shot on Stage 3/8 at the Hollywood Center Studios in Los Angeles, the same studio where the original TV series was filmed.^[10] In the last three months of production, director of photography Owen Roizman quit, and was replaced by Gale Tattersall. Filming resumed, but within weeks Tattersall was rushed to the hospital, halting production while Sonnenfeld took over cinematography, while simultaneously directing the film.^[1] Further delays occurred when a blood vessel in actor Raul Julia’s eye burst, leading the production to film around Julia until he recovered, and Sonnenfeld’s wife became sick, halting production.^[1]

In her 2014 memoir Watch Me, Anjelica Huston described the filming of the Addams Family as «long and arduous».^[11] It was decided that the character of Morticia should have eyes which slanted upwards at the sides, an effect which was achieved by attaching an elastic strap to the back of Huston’s head via fabric tabs glued at her temples, which pulled the corners of her eyes upwards.^[11] A second strap was added to balance the appearance of the lower part of her face with the upper. The bands caused extended discomfort to Huston, and, unless she removed them at lunchtime, she would suffer severe headaches and rashes later in the day. Removing the bands for a break entailed hours of extra work in both removing and then re-applying her makeup and wig. On top of this, the bands would snap at the slightest turn of Huston’s head, causing yet more grueling repair time. Eventually, she learned to pivot and turn on her feet without moving her upper body or head.^[11] According to Huston, actress Judith Malina’s way of enduring being «embedded in latex for over twelve hours a day» was to «smoke an endless series of joints in her trailer throughout filming».^[11]

Another production difficulty was the financial decline of original production studio Orion Pictures, who, while having recently made the big hits The Silence of the Lambs and Dances with Wolves, had also produced several major flops which ate up the studios’ funds, leading Orion to sell The Addams Family, while still in production, to Paramount Pictures.^[1] In exchange, Paramount would own the domestic rights, as Orion had pre-sold the international rights to Columbia.^[2] Part of Orion’s motivation to sell the film was that the film, originally budgeted at $25 million, had gone $5 million over budget due to newly added material as a result of the film’s numerous rewrites. With the projected release date competing with Steven Spielberg’s Hook, Orion feared that The Addams Family would be another expensive flop, and decided to cut its losses. Ultimately, The Addams Family was a box-office hit. As the sale occurred late in production, the filmmakers were unaware that Paramount had taken over production, learning of the sale from a journalist rather than either of the studios.^[1]

Post-production[edit]

The film was further shaped by test screenings. The Mamushka sequence, a musical dance number, was significantly longer in the original cut, but was shortened following negative responses from test audiences.^[1][12]

Music[edit]

The Addams Family: Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by various artists[13]
Released	December 3, 1991[14]
Genre	Soundtrack[13]
Length	41:17[15]
Label	Capitol Records[13][14][15]
Producer	Hummie Mann[13] Marc Shaiman[13]
Singles from The Addams Family Soundtrack
«Addams Groove» Released: December 17, 1991

The Addams Family: Soundtrack was produced by Hummie Mann and Marc Shaiman.^[13] It was orchestrated by Hummie Mann and composed by Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Marc Shaiman and Saxie Dowell.^[13] It was released on December 3, 1991^[14] by Capitol Records.^[13][14][15] «Addams Groove» by MC Hammer was the theme song for the movie and the music video was played prior to the film.

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Soundtrack.net	[14]

Release[edit]

The Addams Family grossed $113,502,426 in the United States and $191,502,426 worldwide, turning a significant profit against the $30 million production costs.^[4]

Lawsuit[edit]

Another obstacle in releasing the film occurred when, as the studios prepared the film for release, David Levy, a producer of the original 1960s TV series, filed a lawsuit against Paramount Pictures, claiming that the film infringed on his property rights. The suit was eventually settled out of court, after the film’s release, due to Paramount greenlighting a sequel after the first film’s success.^[1]

Home media[edit]

Ownership issues surrounding the film (with domestic rights being handled by Paramount and international rights held by Orion’s successor-in-interest Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), kept the film out of print overseas after its initial VHS release, which were not resolved until 2013.^[1] In 1993, McDonald’s sold low-cost, exclusive VHS editions of The Addams Family and Wayne’s World to coincide with the theatrical releases of Addams Family Values and Wayne’s World 2, as part of an exclusive distribution deal with Paramount Home Entertainment.^[16] Paramount Home Entertainment released the film on DVD in 2000; this release contained only two trailers as bonus features.^[17] The film was reissued in a double feature with Addams Family Values in 2006.^[18] Warner Home Video released the film on Blu-ray in the United States on September 9, 2014;^[19] Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (under license from MGM) also released the film on Blu-ray internationally. In October 2019, Paramount Pictures released a double-feature Blu-ray of The Addams Family and Addams Family Values,^[20] along with single releases of each film. In November 2021, the film was re-released on Blu-ray & Ultra HD Blu-ray with an extended version of the Mamushka sequence.^[21]

Reception[edit]

On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 67% based on 51 reviews, with an average rating of 5.80/10. The website’s critical consensus reads: «The movie is peppered with amusing sight gags and one-liners, but the disjointed script doesn’t cohere into a successful whole».^[22][23] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 57 out of 100 based on 19 critics, indicating «mixed or average reviews».^[24] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of «B» on an A+ to F scale.^[25]

Roger Ebert gave the film 2 out of 4 stars, saying it was mildly entertaining but did not add up to much.^[26] Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago Reader called the film a «collection of one-liners and not much more».^[27] Variety magazine wrote: «Despite inspired casting and nifty visual trappings, the eagerly awaited Addams Family figures a major disappointment».^[28][29] According to the BBC, «it is the top-notch cast that elevates this film from flimsy to sheer delight».^[30]

Accolades[edit]

The Addams Family was awarded Best Horror Film of the Year in 1991 by the Horror Hall of Fame. Carel Struycken appeared at the award ceremony to receive the award on behalf of the cast.^[31] Huston was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for her performance as Morticia.^[32] The film was nominated for an Academy Award for achievement in costume design.^[33] The film won a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song for the song «Addams Groove» by MC Hammer.^[34] The film also won an award for Favorite Movie at 1992 Kids’ Choice Awards.

Other media[edit]

Documentary[edit]

A documentary, The Making of The Addams Family, was produced to promote the film in 1991.^[35]

Video game[edit]

Several video games based on the film were released for various console, handheld, and home computer platforms.^[36]

Pinball[edit]

The Addams Family was a commercial arcade pinball machine made by Bally/Williams and was released in March 1992. It became the best selling pinball machine of all time, with more than 20,000 units sold.^[37][38] The pinball was digitally re-released on The Pinball Arcade in February 2015 until June 2018.^[39][40]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• The Addams Family at IMDb
• The Addams Family at the TCM Movie Database
• The Addams Family at AllMovie
• The Addams Family at Box Office Mojo
• Paramount Movies
• Paramount Movies — New Double Feature

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Addams Family
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Barry Sonnenfeld
Written by	Caroline Thompson Larry Wilson
Based on	Characters by Charles Addams
Produced by	Scott Rudin
Starring	Anjelica Huston Raul Julia Christopher Lloyd
Cinematography	Owen Roizman
Edited by	Dede Allen Jim Miller
Music by	Marc Shaiman
Production companies	Paramount Pictures[1] Scott Rudin Productions[2]
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures (North America/South America)[1][2] Columbia Pictures (International)[3]
Release date	November 22, 1991
Running time	99 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$30 million[1]
Box office	$191.5 million[4]

The Addams Family is a 1991 American supernatural black comedy film based on the characters from the cartoon created by cartoonist Charles Addams and the 1964 TV series produced by David Levy.^[5] Directed by former cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld in his screen directing debut, the film stars Anjelica Huston, who was nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance as Morticia Addams, Raul Julia as Gomez Addams, and Christopher Lloyd as Fester Addams. The film focuses on a bizarre, macabre, aristocratic family who reconnect with whom they believe to be a long-lost relative, Gomez’s brother Fester Addams.

The film was noted for its turbulent production; originally developed at Orion, the film went $5 million over budget due to constant rewrites throughout shooting; health problems of people involved in the filming and an overall stressful filming for Sonnenfeld himself, which caused multiple delays. The rise in production costs from the film’s $25 million budget to $30 million led Orion, financially struggling and fearful of another big-budget flop, to sell the film to Paramount, who completed the film and handled the film’s domestic distribution, while Orion distributed the film internationally through Columbia Pictures. The film was commercially successful, making back almost seven times its production costs, and was followed by a sequel, Addams Family Values, two years later.

Plot[edit]

Gomez Addams laments the 25-year absence of his brother Fester, who disappeared after the two had a falling-out. Gomez’s lawyer Tully Alford owes money to loan shark/con artist Abigail Craven, and notices that her adopted son Gordon closely resembles Fester. Tully proposes that Gordon pose as Fester to infiltrate the Addams household and find the hidden vault where they keep their vast riches. Tully and his wife Margaret attend a séance at the Addams home led by Grandmama in which the family tries to contact Fester’s spirit. Gordon arrives, posing as Fester, while Abigail poses as a German psychiatrist named Dr. Greta Pinder-Schloss and tells the family that Fester had been lost in the Bermuda Triangle for the past 25 years until she found him in some tuna nets.

Gomez, overjoyed to have «Fester» back, takes him to the family vault to view home movies from their childhood. Gordon learns the reason for the brothers’ falling-out: Gomez was jealous of Fester’s success with women, and wooed the conjoined twins Flora and Fauna Amor away from him out of envy. Gomez starts to suspect that «Fester» is an impostor when he is unable to recall important details about their past. Gordon attempts to return to the vault, but is unable to get past a booby trap. Gomez’s wife Morticia reminds «Fester» of the importance of family among the Addamses and of their vengeance against those who cross them. Fearing that the family is getting wise to their con, Abigail (under the guise of Dr. Pinder-Schloss) convinces Gomez that his suspicions are due to displacement.

Gordon grows closer to the Addams family, particularly the children Wednesday and Pugsley, whom he helps to prepare a swordplay sequence for a school play. Abigail had insisted that Gordon not attend the play, but after feeling deeply saddened by this, he attends anyway. After the play, Dr. Pinder-Schloss insists that «Fester» must once again leave, so the Addamses throw a large party with their extended family and friends, during which Abigail plans to break into the vault. Wednesday overhears Abigail and Gordon discussing the plan, and escapes them by hiding in the family cemetery. Tully learns that as the elder brother, Fester is the executor of the Addams estate and therefore technically owns the entire property. With help from the Addamses’ neighbor Judge George Womack, whom Gomez has repeatedly infuriated by hitting golf balls into his house, Tully procures a restraining order against the family, banning them from the estate. Gomez attempts to fight the order in court, but Judge Womack rules against him out of spite.

While Abigail, Gordon, and Tully try repeatedly and unsuccessfully to get past the booby trap blocking access to the vault, the Addamses are forced to move into a motel and find jobs. Morticia tries to be a preschool teacher, Wednesday and Pugsley sell toxic lemonade, and Thing—the family’s animated disembodied hand—becomes a courier. Despondent, Gomez sinks into depression and lethargy.

Morticia returns to the Addams home to confront Gordon and is captured by Abigail and Tully, who torture her in an attempt to learn how to access the vault. Thing observes this and informs Gomez, using Morse code, who then rushes to Morticia’s rescue. Abigail threatens Morticia’s life if Gomez does not surrender the family fortune. Fed up with his mother’s behavior and constant berating, Gordon turns against her. Using a magical book which projects its contents into reality, he unleashes a hurricane into the house, which strikes his own head with lightning and launches Tully and Abigail out of a window and into open graves dug for them by Wednesday and Pugsley.

The movie ends with a coda, taking place seven months later at Halloween. The family states that Gordon was really Fester all along, and that the previously made-up story about Fester being found in the tuna nets after being lost in the Bermuda Triangle is true. They further state that Fester had suffered from amnesia the whole time and only recovered his memories after being struck by lightning. With the family whole again as they play «Wake the Dead», Morticia informs Gomez that she is pregnant.

Cast[edit]

• Anjelica Huston as Morticia Addams
• Raul Julia as Gomez Addams
• Christopher Lloyd as Uncle Fester Addams / Gordon Craven
• Christina Ricci as Wednesday Addams
• Jimmy Workman as Pugsley Addams
• Judith Malina as Grandmama
• Carel Struycken as Lurch
• Christopher Hart as Thing
• John Franklin as Cousin Itt
• Elizabeth Wilson as Abigail Craven
• Dan Hedaya as Tully Alford
• Dana Ivey as Margaret Alford
• Paul Benedict as Judge George Womack
• Allegra Kent as Cousin Ophelia Frump
• Mercedes McNab as Girl Scout
• Sally Jessy Raphael as Herself

Barry Sonnenfeld makes an uncredited cameo as a passenger on Gomez’s train.^{[citation needed]}

Production[edit]

Pre-production[edit]

Scott Rudin, a development executive at 20th Century Fox, pitched to the studio an adaptation of Charles Addams’ The Addams Family cartoons, and the studio enthusiastically agreed that the cartoons would make a good film, and set out to purchase the rights. However, Fox would ultimately not make the film, as Orion Pictures, who owned the film rights to The Addams Family, would not sell the property, as they were planning on producing a rebooted TV series. Further crucial property rights were owned by Charles Addams’ widow.^[1] Another difficulty in getting the film produced was the relative obscurity of The Addams Family 1964 TV series, as compared to the better-known (due to syndication) series, The Munsters. The production finally moved forward when Addams’ widow sold the remaining rights to Orion, who put the film in production with Rudin producing.^[1] Tim Burton and Terry Gilliam were approached to direct the film but both declined.^[6]

Casting[edit]

Anjelica Huston said she based aspects of her performance on her friend Jerry Hall to give the character more warmth. Huston said she would have expected the role to go to Cher, but was a longtime fan of Morticia.^[7]

Writing[edit]

Caroline Thompson and Larry Wilson wrote the first draft of the screenplay, which was extensively rewritten later by other writers, including Paul Rudnick, who later wrote Addams Family Values.^[1]

In a 2012 interview, Sonnenfeld recalled that he had originally intended that it be unclear whether Fester really was an imposter or not, but the actors strongly opposed the notion and selected then 10-year-old Christina Ricci («Wednesday Addams») to speak on their behalf. Ricci «gave this really impassioned plea that Fester shouldn’t be an imposter… so we ended up totally changing that plot point to make the actors happy. And they were right – it was the better way to go».^[8]

Special effects[edit]

Makeup and animatronic effects for the film were handled by Tony Gardner and his company Alterian, Inc.

Filming[edit]

After Tim Burton passed on directing the film because he was busy filming Batman Returns, the sequel to the 1989 film Batman, at the time, Barry Sonnenfeld took the job.^[1] According to Sonnenfeld, Terry Gilliam was also offered to direct the film, which he turned down.^[9] His first directing job after previously serving as director of photography for several major films, Sonnenfeld experienced much stress during filming.^[1] Most of the film was shot on Stage 3/8 at the Hollywood Center Studios in Los Angeles, the same studio where the original TV series was filmed.^[10] In the last three months of production, director of photography Owen Roizman quit, and was replaced by Gale Tattersall. Filming resumed, but within weeks Tattersall was rushed to the hospital, halting production while Sonnenfeld took over cinematography, while simultaneously directing the film.^[1] Further delays occurred when a blood vessel in actor Raul Julia’s eye burst, leading the production to film around Julia until he recovered, and Sonnenfeld’s wife became sick, halting production.^[1]

In her 2014 memoir Watch Me, Anjelica Huston described the filming of the Addams Family as «long and arduous».^[11] It was decided that the character of Morticia should have eyes which slanted upwards at the sides, an effect which was achieved by attaching an elastic strap to the back of Huston’s head via fabric tabs glued at her temples, which pulled the corners of her eyes upwards.^[11] A second strap was added to balance the appearance of the lower part of her face with the upper. The bands caused extended discomfort to Huston, and, unless she removed them at lunchtime, she would suffer severe headaches and rashes later in the day. Removing the bands for a break entailed hours of extra work in both removing and then re-applying her makeup and wig. On top of this, the bands would snap at the slightest turn of Huston’s head, causing yet more grueling repair time. Eventually, she learned to pivot and turn on her feet without moving her upper body or head.^[11] According to Huston, actress Judith Malina’s way of enduring being «embedded in latex for over twelve hours a day» was to «smoke an endless series of joints in her trailer throughout filming».^[11]

Another production difficulty was the financial decline of original production studio Orion Pictures, who, while having recently made the big hits The Silence of the Lambs and Dances with Wolves, had also produced several major flops which ate up the studios’ funds, leading Orion to sell The Addams Family, while still in production, to Paramount Pictures.^[1] In exchange, Paramount would own the domestic rights, as Orion had pre-sold the international rights to Columbia.^[2] Part of Orion’s motivation to sell the film was that the film, originally budgeted at $25 million, had gone $5 million over budget due to newly added material as a result of the film’s numerous rewrites. With the projected release date competing with Steven Spielberg’s Hook, Orion feared that The Addams Family would be another expensive flop, and decided to cut its losses. Ultimately, The Addams Family was a box-office hit. As the sale occurred late in production, the filmmakers were unaware that Paramount had taken over production, learning of the sale from a journalist rather than either of the studios.^[1]

Post-production[edit]

The film was further shaped by test screenings. The Mamushka sequence, a musical dance number, was significantly longer in the original cut, but was shortened following negative responses from test audiences.^[1][12]

Music[edit]

The Addams Family: Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by various artists[13]
Released	December 3, 1991[14]
Genre	Soundtrack[13]
Length	41:17[15]
Label	Capitol Records[13][14][15]
Producer	Hummie Mann[13] Marc Shaiman[13]
Singles from The Addams Family Soundtrack
«Addams Groove» Released: December 17, 1991

The Addams Family: Soundtrack was produced by Hummie Mann and Marc Shaiman.^[13] It was orchestrated by Hummie Mann and composed by Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Marc Shaiman and Saxie Dowell.^[13] It was released on December 3, 1991^[14] by Capitol Records.^[13][14][15] «Addams Groove» by MC Hammer was the theme song for the movie and the music video was played prior to the film.

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Soundtrack.net	[14]

Release[edit]

The Addams Family grossed $113,502,426 in the United States and $191,502,426 worldwide, turning a significant profit against the $30 million production costs.^[4]

Lawsuit[edit]

Another obstacle in releasing the film occurred when, as the studios prepared the film for release, David Levy, a producer of the original 1960s TV series, filed a lawsuit against Paramount Pictures, claiming that the film infringed on his property rights. The suit was eventually settled out of court, after the film’s release, due to Paramount greenlighting a sequel after the first film’s success.^[1]

Home media[edit]

Ownership issues surrounding the film (with domestic rights being handled by Paramount and international rights held by Orion’s successor-in-interest Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), kept the film out of print overseas after its initial VHS release, which were not resolved until 2013.^[1] In 1993, McDonald’s sold low-cost, exclusive VHS editions of The Addams Family and Wayne’s World to coincide with the theatrical releases of Addams Family Values and Wayne’s World 2, as part of an exclusive distribution deal with Paramount Home Entertainment.^[16] Paramount Home Entertainment released the film on DVD in 2000; this release contained only two trailers as bonus features.^[17] The film was reissued in a double feature with Addams Family Values in 2006.^[18] Warner Home Video released the film on Blu-ray in the United States on September 9, 2014;^[19] Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (under license from MGM) also released the film on Blu-ray internationally. In October 2019, Paramount Pictures released a double-feature Blu-ray of The Addams Family and Addams Family Values,^[20] along with single releases of each film. In November 2021, the film was re-released on Blu-ray & Ultra HD Blu-ray with an extended version of the Mamushka sequence.^[21]

Reception[edit]

On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 67% based on 51 reviews, with an average rating of 5.80/10. The website’s critical consensus reads: «The movie is peppered with amusing sight gags and one-liners, but the disjointed script doesn’t cohere into a successful whole».^[22][23] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 57 out of 100 based on 19 critics, indicating «mixed or average reviews».^[24] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of «B» on an A+ to F scale.^[25]

Roger Ebert gave the film 2 out of 4 stars, saying it was mildly entertaining but did not add up to much.^[26] Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago Reader called the film a «collection of one-liners and not much more».^[27] Variety magazine wrote: «Despite inspired casting and nifty visual trappings, the eagerly awaited Addams Family figures a major disappointment».^[28][29] According to the BBC, «it is the top-notch cast that elevates this film from flimsy to sheer delight».^[30]

Accolades[edit]

The Addams Family was awarded Best Horror Film of the Year in 1991 by the Horror Hall of Fame. Carel Struycken appeared at the award ceremony to receive the award on behalf of the cast.^[31] Huston was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for her performance as Morticia.^[32] The film was nominated for an Academy Award for achievement in costume design.^[33] The film won a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song for the song «Addams Groove» by MC Hammer.^[34] The film also won an award for Favorite Movie at 1992 Kids’ Choice Awards.

Other media[edit]

Documentary[edit]

A documentary, The Making of The Addams Family, was produced to promote the film in 1991.^[35]

Video game[edit]

Several video games based on the film were released for various console, handheld, and home computer platforms.^[36]

Pinball[edit]

The Addams Family was a commercial arcade pinball machine made by Bally/Williams and was released in March 1992. It became the best selling pinball machine of all time, with more than 20,000 units sold.^[37][38] The pinball was digitally re-released on The Pinball Arcade in February 2015 until June 2018.^[39][40]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• The Addams Family at IMDb
• The Addams Family at the TCM Movie Database
• The Addams Family at AllMovie
• The Addams Family at Box Office Mojo
• Paramount Movies
• Paramount Movies — New Double Feature

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Конечно, это не «Семейка Адамс«.

Конечно, это не «Семейка Адамс«.

Семейка Адамс (фильм 1991 год)

Вспомним классический сериал «Семейка Адамс».

Обычно, это — тематические игровые автоматы, с графикой и музыкой, основанной на популярных фильмах или телепрограммах, таких, к примеру, как «Семейка Адамс», и бонусными играми.

Usually, they are thematic slots that have graphics and music based on popular films or television programs, for example, «The Addams Family«, and bonus games.

Его некоторые персонажи стали известны как Семейка Адамс, и они легли в основу двух игровых телесериалов, трех картин движения, двух анимационных сериалов, и бродвейского мюзикла.

Some of the recurring characters, who became known as The Addams Family, became the basis for two live-action television series, two animated TV series, three motion pictures and a Broadway musical.

Первый взгляд: «Семейка Адамс» возвращается

Впервые семейка Адамс появилась на страницах The New Yorker в 1938 году.

«Семейка Адамс» — 8,5 млн долларов (мировые — 129,2 млн долларов).

«The Addams Family, «$8.5 million ($25.9 million international).

Оно было излюбленным креслом героини Мортиши Аддамс из сериала «Семейка Адамс», роль которой исполнила Кэролин Джонс.

It was a favourite seat of the heroine Morticia Addams from the TV series «The Addams Family«, played by Carolyn Jones.

IGT после своего успеха с Колесом фортуны адаптировала к своим аппаратам другие хорошо известные иконы и продукты поп-культуры, среди которых можно назвать Семейка Адамс, Я мечтаю о Джинни, Элвис и Munsters.

IGT, following its success with Wheel of Fortune, adapted other well-known pop culture icons and products, including The Addams Family, I Dream of Jeannie, Elvis, and The Munsters.

Вик Миззи (9 января 1916 — 17 октября 2009) был американским композитором для телевидения и фильмов, самые известные работы которых — темы к комедиям положений телевидения 1960-х Зеленые Акры и Семейка Адамс.

Vic Mizzy (January 9, 1916 — October 17, 2009) was an American composer for television and movies whose best-known works are the themes to the 1960s television sitcoms Green Acres and The Addams Family.

Кристина Риччи является популярной американской актрисой, известной своими ролями в фильмах «Семейка Адамс», «Каспер», «Сонная лощина», «Страх и ненависть в Лас-Вегасе» и др.

Christina Ricci — American actress, known for his roles in such films as The Addams Family«, «Casper, «» Sleepy Hollow», «Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas», etc.

Наибольшую известность принесла ей роль Мортиши Адамс в фильме «Семейка Адамс».

Most remember her as Morticia Addams in TV’s The Addams Family.

Семейка Адамс в 1964 году

Мы волшебная семейка Адамс.

Семейка Адамс (фильм 1991 год)

Это хуже чем семейка Адамс

Maybe worse than Adams.

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