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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.

Director

Barry Sonnenfeld

Year

Genre

comedy, fantasy

Box Office

$113,502,426

Production

Paramount Pictures,Scott Rudin Productions

Awards

Nominated for 1 Oscar. 5 wins & 23 nominations total

Part of Collection

Addams Family Collection: Addams Family Values, The Addams Family

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Morticia Addams

Anjelica Huston

Gomez Addams

Uncle Fester Addams

Christopher Lloyd

Tully Alford

Abigail Craven

Elizabeth Wilson

Granny

Lurch

Carel Struycken

Margaret Alford

Judge Womack

Wednesday Addams

Christina Ricci

Pugsley Addams

Thing

Christopher Hart

Cousin It

Digit Addams

Dexter Addams

Douglas Brian Martin

Donald Addams

Steven M. Martin

Cousin Ophelia Addams

Slosh Addams

Richard Korthaze

Lumpy Addams

Flora Amor

Maureen Sue Levin

Fauna Amor

Employment Agent

Kate McGregor-Stewart

Susan Firkins

Little Tully (as Whitby Hertford)

Lois Addams

Swedish Blonde

Pre-Teen Gomez

Pre-Teen Fester

Teenage Gomez

Teenage Fester

Michael Hittesdorf

Teenage Flora

Teenage Fauna

Girl Scout

Long Arm Addams

Fingers Addams

One-Armed Bass Player

Snake Charmer

Conductor

Juggler

Juggler

Self

Sally Jessy Raphael

Caroler

Gate (voice)

S. Scott Bullock

Office Worker

Passenger on Gomez's train

Barry Sonnenfeld

Elf

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Morticia Addams Uncle Fester Grandmama Wednesday Addams Uncle Fester Addams Girl Scout Tully Alfford Abigail Craven Fauna Amor Flora Amor Lurch

Think of it, thing. - The Addams Family

Think of it, thing.

Don't be a baby I know what I'm doing - The Addams Family

Don't be a baby I know what I'm doing

Look at her. - The Addams Family

Look at herI would die for herI would kill for herEither way what blissUnhappy darling Oh yesYes completelyGomezSunLl me Perce comme UN poignaro'Oh tish that's FrenchOuiCara m aEn garde monsieur sole IGomezQuer daLast night you were unhingedYou were like - The Addams Family

Look at herI would die for herI would kill for herEither way...

Damn you, Addams! - The Addams Family

Damn you, Addams!

Don't torture yourself GomezThat's my job - The Addams Family

Don't torture yourself GomezThat's my job

This is all so humiliatingWhy did I marry you Because I said yes - The Addams Family

This is all so humiliatingWhy did I marry you Because I said...

Uncle niknak's winter wardrobeUncle niknak's summer wardrobeUncle niknak - The Addams Family

Uncle niknak's winter wardrobeUncle niknak's...

There it is Just what we've been searching forThank you thing - The Addams Family

There it is Just what we've been searching forThank you...

Let's keep itHush mamaIt's for charity Widows and orphansWe need more of them - The Addams Family

Let's keep itHush mamaIt's for charity Widows and...

MargaretAbout the séance tonightI wish you'd come It's Gomez I'm terribly worried about himHe won't eat He can't sleepHe keeps coughing up bloodHe coughs up bloodWell not like he used to - The Addams Family

MargaretAbout the séance tonightI wish you'd come...

Have you Have you tried hard enoughAsk him sweetheart No no no sweetheart Don't ask - The Addams Family

Have you Have you tried hard enoughAsk him sweetheart No no...

Children we're startingPut down that antenna - The Addams Family

Children we're startingPut down that antenna

Thing you're a handful - The Addams Family

Thing you're a handful

Nobody gets out of the Bermuda triangleNot even for a vacationEveryone knows thatOh my little bundle So much you don't understandThe human spirit it is a hard thing to killEven with a chainsaw - The Addams Family

Nobody gets out of the Bermuda triangleNot even for a...

May I have the saltWhat do we sayNow - The Addams Family

May I have the saltWhat do we sayNow

What is thisMama's spéc a iz'é de la MaisonOh tishStart with the eyes - The Addams Family

What is thisMama's spéc a iz'é de la MaisonOh...

Smell that air festerLike a tomb - The Addams Family

Smell that air festerLike a tomb

Pugsley sit in the chairWhy So we can play a gameWhat gameIt's called is there a god - The Addams Family

Pugsley sit in the chairWhy So we can play a gameWhat...

Two ten 11 Eyes fingers toes - The Addams Family

Two ten 11 Eyes fingers toes

Show time - The Addams Family

Remember that fateful nightOf courseYour first cigarWhatCome on old man I've smoked since I was fiveMother insisted - The Addams Family

Remember that fateful nightOf courseYour first cigarWhatCome...

It has to warm upWhySo it can kill youI knew that - The Addams Family

It has to warm upWhySo it can kill youI knew that

Children what are you doing I'm going to electrocute himBut we're late for the charity auctionBut mother I said noPleaseOh all right - The Addams Family

Children what are you doing I'm going to electrocute...

This magnificent pieceis encrusted with rubies and 15 emerald chipsIt was donated by morticia and Gomez AddamsRemember this year over half our proceedswill benefit the elderly and the mentally disabledI'll open the bidding at 5 000Five not good enough20 - The Addams Family

This magnificent pieceis encrusted with rubies and 15...

How do you take it off That's absurdThat finger trap was a party favor at his tenth birthdayOh noFather's playing with his trainsHe wore that finger trap for two yearsMother had to teach him to eat with his feetAnd the combination and the passwordand my - The Addams Family

How do you take it off That's absurdThat finger trap...

Dead man's curve - The Addams Family

Dead man's curve

And our credo, ”sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc." "We gladly feast on those who would subdue us." Not just pretty words. - The Addams Family

And our credo, ”sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc."...

Why don't you speak to fester darling He's right outside the doorI would speak with fester if that were festerBut that is not That's an impostorAn impostore - The Addams Family

Why don't you speak to fester darling He's right...

Haven't you ever slaughtered anyoneHe's only a child No excuseAim for a major artery The jugular - The Addams Family

Haven't you ever slaughtered anyoneHe's only a...

But then you are feeling the little black monsterPugsley Guilt Yes - The Addams Family

But then you are feeling the little black monsterPugsley...

Is it unpleasant - The Addams Family

Is it unpleasant

Love hate Hate loveLike for mama NoBut I didn't hate my mother It was an accident - The Addams Family

Love hate Hate loveLike for mama NoBut I didn't hate my...

But I didn't hate my mother It was an accident - The Addams Family

But I didn't hate my mother It was an accident

Displacement How bizarreAnd here I thought fester was the problemHe's sullen He's furtiveBackstabbing He sulksI suspect him You're unbalancedAnd I hate him By god you're rightHe is festerThank you Dr Pinder schlossI do what I can - The Addams Family

Displacement How bizarreAnd here I thought fester was the...

Look children a new chapterScabs - The Addams Family

Look children a new chapterScabs

Have you spoken to her parentsBut Wednesday brought in this picturecalpurnia AddamsWednesday's great aunt calpurniaShe was burned as a witch in 1706They say she danced naked in the town squareand enslaved a ministerReally Oh yesBut don't worry We've told - The Addams Family

Have you spoken to her parentsBut Wednesday brought in this...

That's better. - The Addams Family

How all occasions do inform against me and spur my dull revengeOh from this time forth my thoughts be bloody or nothing worthIf I must strike you dead I willA hita very palpable hitO proud deathwhat feast is toward in thine eternal cellSweet oblivion open - The Addams Family

How all occasions do inform against me and spur my dull...

It's a promise - The Addams Family

When we first met it was an evening much like thisMagic in the airA boyA girlAn open graveIt was my first funeralYou were so beautifulPale and mysteriousNo one even looked at the corpse - The Addams Family

When we first met it was an evening much like thisMagic in...

You bewitched meI proposed that very night - The Addams Family

You bewitched meI proposed that very night

They're not your family Gordon I amThey don't love you I doThey're evil and corrupt and degradedI can give you that I'm fine Really - The Addams Family

They're not your family Gordon I amThey don't love...

Tish, how long has it been since we've waltzed? - The Addams Family

Tish, how long has it been since we've waltzed?

I am blinded by such beauty - The Addams Family

I am blinded by such beauty

Flora fauna how can I competeYou're twice the woman I am - The Addams Family

Flora fauna how can I competeYou're twice the woman I...

I'm fauna I'm floraI'm flattered Excuse me ladies - The Addams Family

I'm fauna I'm floraI'm flattered Excuse me...

We danced the mamushka while nero fiddledWe danced the mamushka at WaterlooWe danced the mamushka for Jack the ripperAnd now fester Addamsthis mamushka is for you - The Addams Family

We danced the mamushka while nero fiddledWe danced the...

So hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey - The Addams Family

So hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey

Hey hey hey hey hey stop it Gordon Stop itStop it this instantIs that lipstick all over your face From the twinsThe beauteous amor twinsThe twinsGordon I don't understand this Let me get this clearHave you been having a good time Yes I haveIt was - The Addams Family

Hey hey hey hey hey stop it Gordon Stop itStop it this...

Gordon I don't understand this Let me get this clearHave you been having a good time Yes I haveIt was marvelousI sang up a storm and danced till I droppedThe mamushka the mamushka - The Addams Family

Gordon I don't understand this Let me get this...

It was just a party It's overIt means nothingThe siamese twins the hunchback cousin itthey're not you - The Addams Family

It was just a party It's overIt means nothingThe...

It's so sweet He looks just like a little entree - The Addams Family

It's so sweet He looks just like a little entree

Fan out Pugsley head for the dung heapMama and morticia the shallow graves I'll take the abyssLurch check out the bottomless pitFester Up hereFester you take the ravine and the unmarked abandoned wellSomeone should stay behind in case she comes backGood - The Addams Family

Fan out Pugsley head for the dung heapMama and morticia the...

They say a man who represents himself has a fool for a clientWell with god as my witnessI am that fool - The Addams Family

They say a man who represents himself has a fool for a...

You are doing this on purpose That's right mother Isn't this funI'll race you back - The Addams Family

You are doing this on purpose That's right mother...

Because we're addamsesWe're addamses - The Addams Family

Because we're addamsesWe're addamses

- Is this made from real lemons? - The Addams Family

- Is this made from real lemons?

After lunch we'll try againYes motherWe'll find the moneyMeanwhile we have this little nest quiet and cozywithout that dreadful familyYes mother - The Addams Family

After lunch we'll try againYes motherWe'll find...

So you c a m that your son was brainwashedby voodoo witch doctors and forced to recruit othersLet's take a callHello SallyIl lr Addams please stop callingWe do not know where they meet - The Addams Family

So you c a m that your son was brainwashedby voodoo witch...

Gomez why don't we go for a driveThe whole family A driveAnd miss gilligan - The Addams Family

Gomez why don't we go for a driveThe whole family A...

Dinner's gonna be lateHere boy Here boy - The Addams Family

Dinner's gonna be lateHere boy Here boy

We could have been such friends Gordon let's get startedBut mother Stop stallingI'm not stalling Stop badgering me - The Addams Family

We could have been such friends Gordon let's get...

You've done this before - The Addams Family

You've done this before

Mor morticiaMorticiaMorticia whatSlow downIt's terrible when you stutterMorticia in dangerStopSend help at once Stop - The Addams Family

Mor morticiaMorticiaMorticia whatSlow downIt's terrible...

Cara Mia Ll lon Cher - The Addams Family

Cara Mia Ll lon Cher

To live without you only that would be tortureA day alone only that would be death - The Addams Family

To live without you only that would be tortureA day alone...

Knock it off - The Addams Family

Good show old man - The Addams Family

Good show old man

Leather straps Red hot pokersLater my dearest - The Addams Family

Leather straps Red hot pokersLater my dearest

Keep the book closed Gordon Listen to motherI'll never listen to you never ever againI had to be strict with you because I cared Put it downYou never really loved meFester this wayStop whining you little good for nothing Be a manYou were a terrible - The Addams Family

Keep the book closed Gordon Listen to motherI'll never...

Are they dead? - The Addams Family

Trick or - The Addams Family

Everyone keeps asking where he bought his costumeIt is a wonderful hat - The Addams Family

Everyone keeps asking where he bought his costumeIt is a...

What are you darling Where's your costumeThis is my costume I'm a homicidal maniacThey look just like everyone else - The Addams Family

What are you darling Where's your costumeThis is my...

Cara Mia, is it true? - The Addams Family

Cara Mia, is it true?

Children look Great aunt laviniaShe was beheaded by her own children - The Addams Family

Children look Great aunt laviniaShe was beheaded by her own...

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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.

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Director: Barry Sonnenfeld

Writer: Charles Addams, Caroline Thompson, Larry Wilson

Production: Paramount Pictures,Scott Rudin Productions

Genre: comedy, fantasy

Year: 1991

MetaScore: 57/100

ImdbRating: 6.9

BoxOffice: $113,502,426

Released: 22 Nov 1991

Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. 5 wins & 23 nominations total

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Addams Family Collection: Addams Family Values, The Addams Family

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