Addams Family Values (1993)

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld Cinematographer: Donald Peterman

Sonnenfield’s comedy sequel sees the Addams family welcoming a new baby boy but then making the mistake of employing devious nanny (Joan Cusack). She pretends to fall in love with Uncle Fester (Christopher Lloyd) and then marries him, intending to murder him for his inheritance. Meanwhile, the family teenagers, Wednesday (Christina Ricci) and Pugsley (Jimmy Workman), are none to happy about their new sibling and will stop at nothing to get rid of  him. While the first film did better business at the box office and was deemed a strong adaptation of the madcap TV series, Addams Family Value goes deliciously more macabre and satirical in its humour and was seen by many critics as a rare example of a sequel that is better than the original.

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CAST

• Raul Julia as Gomez Addams
• Anjelica Huston as Morticia Addams
• Christopher Lloyd as Uncle Fester
• Christina Ricci as Wednesday Addams
• Christopher Hart‘s Hand as Thing
• Carel Struycken as Lurch
• Jimmy Workman as Pugsley Addams
• John Franklin as Cousin Itt
• Dana Ivey as Margaret Alford (Mrs. Cousin Itt)
• Carol Kane as Grandmama Addams (replacing Judith Malina)
• Joan Cusack as Debbie Jellinsky, a professional black widow
• David Krumholtz as Joel Glicker, Wednesday’s love interest
• Kaitlyn and Kristen Hooper as Pubert Addams
• Peter MacNicol as Gary Granger; he and his wife Becky are in charge of Camp Chippewa
• Christine Baranski as Becky Martin-Granger
• Mercedes McNab as Amanda Buckman (she was the Girl Scout in the first film)
• Cynthia Nixon as Heather, one of the potential nannies

Cameo roles

• Director Barry Sonnenfeld as Mr. Glicker
• Julie Halston as Mrs. Glicker
• Nathan Lane as Police Desk Sergeant (Lane would eventually go on to playing Gomez in The Addams Family musical.)
• David Hyde Pierce as Delivery Room Doctor
• Peter Graves as America’s Most Disgusting Unsolved Crimes anchorman
• Sam McMurray as Don Buckman, Amanda’s father
• Harriet Sansom Harris as Ellen Buckman, Amanda’s mother
• Ian Abercrombie as Driver
• Tony Shalhoub as Jorge, a patron at the bar Debbie goes to

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Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld
Produced by Scott Rudin
Screenplay by Paul Rudnick
Music by Marc Shaiman, Ralph Sall
Cinematography Donald Peterman
Edited by Arthur Schmidt, Jim Miller
Running time 94 minutes
Country United States
Language English