The Addams Family (1991)
Con artists plan to fleece the eccentric family using an accomplice who claims to be their long lost Uncle Fester. (imdb)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Barry Sonnenfeld
Written By: Caroline Thompson, Larry Wilson, Charles Addams
Starring: Christopher Lloyd, Anjelica Huston, Christina Ricci, Dan Hedaya, Raul Julia, Elizabeth Wilson, Carel Struycken, Dana Ivey, Judith Malina, Kate McGregor-Stewart, Jimmy Workman
Genres: Comedy, Family/Kids, Fantasy, Horror
Franchise: The Addams Family
Country: USA
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SlrSoapbox | 95 96% |
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I stand by this film as the greatest TV-to-movie adaptation ever made. The cast (Julia, Huston, Lloyd and Ricci in particular) is absolutely perfect and the script is still darkly hilarious 20 years later. RIP Raul Julia.
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joel-w-m | 8 80% |
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The plot isn't terribly compelling but the upside-down dynamics of the titular family more than make up for it. They're kooky, crafty, and hilariously morbid (young Wednesday of course is a highlight: "Are they made from real Girl Scouts?")-and a far cry from the harried suburban Mom & Dad of 90s VHS tapes are parents Gomez and Morticia who ooze romantic passion ("How long has it been since we've waltzed?" "Oh Gomez.. hours"). Endlessly quotable and wholly memorable (see the bloody school play).
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eCitizen | 91 90% |
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A wonderfully clever story applied to the venerable Addams Family mythos. Everything is in keeping with the flavor and style we have all come to love. Raul Julia and Christina Ricci are standouts, but Anjelica Huston and Christopher Lloyd are also wonderful in their characters. Great fun from beginning to end.
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BillyShears | 80 77% |
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The weakness of this is that there is nothing to see how messed up the Addams are in their world save for a few brief moments and a bit of the ending, it's all in their house. IN my own lil house I'ma hoot and a holler but when I'm out and a bout I'm a stupid idiot.
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| 2 | pompousass | 20 44% |
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Black comedy for kids, specifically those too young to remember the mid-Sixties television sitcom of the same name. The pattern of inversions is simple to grasp -- the bouquet of rose stems with the blossoms snipped off, the children holding a TV antenna outdoors in a lightning storm -- and then it just goes on repeating itself (inside a dormant long-lost-brother plot). This sort of thing comes more welcome at intervals of one cartoon per issue of The New Yorker than at 24 frames per second.
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TimeCapsule | 77 78% |
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Everyone's favorite creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky Addams Family make their big screen debut in this 90's kids' classic. As much as the Addams family home is covered in cobwebs and creepy crawlies, this movie is teeming with personal nostalgia. Masterfully cast, the wonderfully performances, clever humor, and macabre aesthetic charm of everything, elevates a so-so story into an entertaining watch for the whole family, living or dead.
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| 2 | Castlevania2 | 95 93% |
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Raul Julia should have beaten Anthony Hopkins for the Oscar. Gomez Addams is still way cooler than any Hannibal Lecter.
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| 2 | thedropbeat | 80 54% |
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A veritable hand book for the Hot Topic generation, The Addams Family is actually a smarter comedy that it may first appear to be. The performances are inspired; topped off with humorously morbid dialogue and slapstick humor that never feels excessive.
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BattleToad | 85 76% |
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Very true to the style of the comics and the original show, the humor is clever and unique. The Addams Family is a purely fun and charming film with an absolutely incredible cast and entertaining story. Really good!
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CosmicMonkey | 68 29% |
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This is, perhaps surprisingly, the most heart-warming and adorable family in film. Gomez and Morticia's love and passion for each other after years of marraige is not just hot and steamy but also cute and addicting to watch, and their non-judgmental, understanding and supportive style of parenting should be a model to the rest of us, The cast all do great jobs in their roles; and the aesthetic is lovingly tailored as well.
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| 2 | Jay Dub | 75 45% |
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Stylistically brilliant update of the classic series; the casting is perfect, the direction is solid, and it's pretty funny to boot.
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PeaceAnarchy | 73 36% |
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It amuses and has some good moments.
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snakey | 100 81% |
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Words cannot describe the comedic and cinematic design genius that made this movie a permanent favorite of mine.
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HyphenateMe | 81 88% |
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M. Bison plays Gomez Addams in the updated classic of a classic TV show which was sweet before and is sweet now!
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twincinema | 85 85% |
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Exists in a universe where a sentient hand is met with indifference. Gomez and Morticia have the horniest relationship between two people in a kid's film.
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lachapelle | 84 74% |
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Kooky, nutty, and stylistically wonderful. This movie not only captures the essence of the old TV show, but the old comic as well. Christopher Lloyd steals this movie, which is hard to do when you see the chemistry between Raul Julia and Angelica Houston.
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Corbad | 85 90% |
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Julia and Huston truly do have crackling chemistry, and the film is consistently hilarious. Ingeniously subversive, often in the simplest ways.
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Nathan S | 3 45% |
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Somewhat entertaining, but it was a lot better when I was 10.
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rttntomatoes | 60 33% |
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The movie is peppered with amusing sight gags and one-liners, but the disjointed script doesn't cohere into a successful whole.
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sopachuco13 | 80 62% |
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The Addams Family is a wonderful piece of nostalgia. As a 90's kid, I grew up with a healthy dose of old TV in my house. I used to watch the original Addams Family TV show with my father after school. I am sure this is why we got so many of these remakes when I was a kid.
The cast of this movie makes this movie really shine in my opinion. This movie made a generation of people love Christina Ricci, she taught us that it was okay to be a goth. Lloyd, Julia, Huston, etc. The cast is awesome!
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JLFM | 56 27% |
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Basically just a parade of (generally corny) mawkish gags, but some of them do land, and the gusto with which the film was directed and performed is extremely admirable. Acceptably diverting.
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Ununnilium | 81 77% |
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A definite classic. It's not without its flaws, but goddamn, the portrayal of people whose sense of good and bad is at odds with the society around them, and seeing them flourish and be happy and overcome the pressures put on them by said society - that's something that was really important to all the queer kids, trans kids, neurodivergent kids, and a lot of others. Hell yeah. (Plus, *amazing* casting.)
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| 1 | davisty69 | 80 41% |
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Classic masterpiece
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| 1 | aaaaaaarrggg | 57 46% |
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That creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky family is back in this lavish reincarnation of the popular TV show. The casting is perfect -- Ricci *is* Wednesday -- and there are impressive settings and great FX to bring the walking hand "Thing" to life but this is more of a series of vignettes than a real movie. The school play scene probably spills more blood than in any Paramount release since the first _Friday the 13th_.
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martryn | 66 42% |
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Meh. An alright film based on the Addams Family. Christina Ricci is super hot, though. I can say that because of how old I was when I first watched it.
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Velvet Crowe | 71 77% |
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The plot and jokes aren't outstanding but the film is enjoyable due to charming performances by the entire cast and a lot of fun setpieces. Christopher Lloyd's Uncle Fester is a particular stand out, whose shift between straight man to kooky madman is fun to watch.
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Sweekoden | 59 46% |
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Allllmost good. The characters look great and the casting for the family is spot-on. Wish they'd went with a different storyline, because this one causes the film to start off real rough, and ultimately end up just 'okay'. I definitely warmed up to it after the first half hour, even if it did at times seem like a collection of cartoon sketches rather than a full-on movie adaptation.
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| 1 | ivanstrel | 90 66% |
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A very 90s film.
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KMcNeil | 4 33% |
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Sub-par script elevated by great performances. Elevated to "decent", that is.
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| 1 | maarten | 57 47% |
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A classic of course, but it's just not as good as I had remembered it to be. Apart from the things that are now clichés (and rightly so!), most of the film dwells between the boring and the mediocre. Funny to see again, but really enjoyable? No...
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| 1 | moviesinhell | 75 54% |
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The skeletal plot serves as an adequate frame for a series of gags ranging from the cute to the creaky to the legitimately sick and surreal. The expected high-tech FX help expand the slapstick possibilities, allowing hyper living hand "Thing" to enjoy a more active role, while the elaborate, imaginative sets, especially the Addams manse's full-blown basement sea, contribute a major visual plus.
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Quintonjamin | 70 65% |
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My mind was telling me it wasn't that good, but for some reason I loved it. It has a fantastic atmosphere and a surprising amount of good laughs.
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| Average Percentile 43.84% from 6434 Ratings |  |