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The Addams Family (1991)

PG-1311/22/1991Comedy, Fantasy1h 40m

Weird is relative.

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Raúl Juliá

    Gomez Addams

  2. Cast 1

    Anjelica Huston

    Morticia Addams

  3. Cast 1

    Christopher Lloyd

    Uncle Fester

  4. Cast 1

    Christina Ricci

    Wednesday Addams

  5. Cast 1

    Carel Struycken

    Lurch

  6. Cast 1

    Dan Hedaya

    Tully Alford

  7. Cast 1

    Jimmy Workman

    Pugsley Addams

  8. Cast 1

    Elizabeth Wilson

    Abigail Craven / Dr. Greta Pinder-Schloss

  9. Cast 1

    Dana Ivey

    Margaret Alford / Margaret Addams

I reckon central casting could have searched for an hundred years and never cast a better "Morticia" than Anjelica Huston in this enjoyable big screen adaptation of the television series. Happily married to "Gomez" (another inspired casting choice in Raul Julia), they live their nocturnally focussed lives with children "Pugsley" (Jimmy Workman),"Wednesday" (an almost unrecognisable Christina Ricci) and stoic, eight-foot tall, butler "Lurch" (Carer Struycken) in their Gothic mansion. Their idyllic existence is put under threat, though, when their erstwhile kindly uncle "Fester" (Christopher Llo...

Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

Budget$30,000,000.00

Revenue $191,502,426.00

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