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Actors: Raul Julia, Anjelica Huston, Christopher Lloyd, Christina Ricci
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Addams Family |
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For 25 years, Uncle Fester has gone missing from the Addams Family, a creepy but jovial collection of characters who live in a gothic mansion with its own graveyard. Tully Alford (Dan Hedaya), the Addams's attorney and cousin, cooks up a scheme to have a loan shark acquaintance's son Gordon (Lloyd) pretend to be Uncle Fester returned, so they can get access to the family's wealth. Gomez (Julia) and Morticia (Huston) Addams are overjoyed by "Fester's" return, but daughter Wednesday (Ricci) remains skeptical. This 1991 film adaptation of the short-lived 1960s TV series, itself inspired by Charles Addams's New Yorker cartoons, is mostly a series of pretty good cartoon jokes strung together by a weak and not very lively story -- although Julia and Huston turn in spirited performances. Best scene is when Wednesday (Ricci was only 10, but this was her third feature) and brother Pugsley (Jimmy Workman) turn an excerpt of Shakespeare into a bloody gross-out at their school play.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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In this dark comedy based on the animated series, a macabre family lives life in a creepy mansion. When a stranger arrives at their door, they think it's their long-lost uncle, Fester. Really it's just a dead ringer posing as him to steal the family's fortune. Mass mayhem ensures, and the stranger becomes one of them.
--Estefan Ellison, Resident Scholar
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Fester Addams comes back from the Bermuda Triangle. He has since been brainwashed into thinking he is Gordon. But when he goes back to the Addams house to steal their fortune the past comes back.
--kaity loder, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Addams Family |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Comedy, primarily
Yes
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
If a parody... of
- horror movies
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- simply wealthy
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric:
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Hispanic/Latinic
Sense of humor?
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type
- (woman) very skinny
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric:
Yes
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Hair color
- bald
Hair type
- (man) bald
Body type
- (man) fat
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
Small town?
Yes
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
- resort/hotel
- scientific labs
- theater
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- very happy
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
Is this movie based on a
- comics
- TV show
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