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The Addams Family
When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a celebration to wake the dead. But the kids barely have time to warm up the electric chair before Morticia begins to suspect Fester is fraud when he can't recall any of the details of Fester's life.
1991 · Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld · 100 min · Comedy · Fantasy · Screenplay in the scene database · 15 frames
Tagline
Weird is relative.
Plot
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 and con artist Abigail Craven, and notices that her adopted son Gordon closely resembles Fester. He 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 the German psychiatrist Dr. Greta Pinder-Schloss. She 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 that Gomez was jealous of Fester's success with women, and wooed the conjoined twins Flora and Fauna Amor away from him out of envy, resulting in their dispute.
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 convinces Gomez that his suspicions are due to displacement.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Caroline Thompson, Larry Wilson
- Cinematography: Owen Roizman
- Edited by: Dede Allen, Jim Miller
- Music: Marc Shaiman
- Production design: Richard Macdonald
- Produced by: Scott Rudin
Cast
- Raúl Juliá as Gomez Addams
- Anjelica Huston as Morticia Addams
- Christopher Lloyd as Uncle Fester
- Dan Hedaya as Tully Alford
- Elizabeth Wilson as Abigail Craven
- Judith Malina as Granny
- Carel Struycken as Lurch
- Dana Ivey as Margaret Alford
- Paul Benedict as Judge Womack
- Christina Ricci as Wednesday Addams
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Paramount Pictures, Orion Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions
- Budget: $30,000,000
- Box office: $191,502,426
- Themes: dancing, dead wish, secret passage, fencing, halloween, black humor, uncle, eccentric, mansion, loan shark
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