The Addams Family

4.00
    The Addams Family
    1991

    Synopsis

    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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    Cast

    • Raúl JuliáGomez Addams
    • Anjelica HustonMorticia Addams
    • Christopher LloydUncle Fester
    • Christina RicciWednesday Addams
    • Carel StruyckenLurch
    • Dan HedayaTully Alford
    • Jimmy WorkmanPugsley Addams
    • Elizabeth WilsonAbigail Craven / Dr. Greta Pinder-Schloss
    • Dana IveyMargaret Alford / Margaret Addams
    • Judith MalinaGrandma

    Recommendations

    • 80

      Washington Post

      A laugh-in-the-dark funhouse ride that provides nearly two hours of slightly sinister sight gags and Gothic giggles, is creepy, kooky, even altogether ooky enough to satisfy any Addams addict.
    • 78

      Austin Chronicle

      Truthfully, it's hard to imagine a better screen adaptation of this queer household. Addams would have been proud.
    • 70

      IGN

      Towards the end of the ride you are ready to get off... but if ride films are your thing, you'll be surprised at how much you enjoy this, even if you don't remember much about it afterwards.
    • 60

      Empire

      Deliciously sick and delightfully cast.
    • 60

      The New York Times

      The film's aimlessness and repetitiveness eventually become draining. And its small touches often work better than its more elaborate ones, like an extended party sequence that seems awkward and largely unnecessary.
    • 58

      Entertainment Weekly

      It might have helped had the film included a few more representatives of the straight world. As it is, there’s almost nothing for the family to play off. We’re shut up in that mansion right along with them, and the kookiness grows fatally quaint.
    • 50

      Chicago Sun-Times

      This is the kind of film that isn't as much fun to see as it is to hear about.
    • 50

      Time Out London

      Barry Sonnenfeld setting a cracking pace in his directorial debut, but suggesting that Tim Burton might have given the film the edge it lacks. Ooky the Addamses may be, subversive they ain't; it plays like a paean to the nuclear family.

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