Addams Family Values

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld

Starring: Raúl Juliá, Anjelica Houston, Christopher Lloyd, Joan Cusack, Christina Ricci, Carol Kane, Jimmy Workman, Carel Struycken, David Krumholtz, Peter MacNicol, Christine Baranski, Mercedes McNab

Distributed By: Paramount Pictures

Release Date: November 1993

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My favourite of the Addams Family movies, this is filled with dark Gothic humour and a wonderful cast.
Anjelica Houston dazzles as Morticia and continues to make her graceful and witty.
Raúl Juliá is absolute perfection and gives my favourite performance of Gomez on screen and it's such a shame that he died shortly after making this movie.
Christina Ricci excels as Wednesday and has many of the best lines and is great fun to watch during all the summer camp scenes. I also love the over the top sugariness of Christine Baranski and Peter MacNicol as the two camp leaders.
Christopher Lloyd makes Uncle Fester lovable and I particularly enjoy his scenes opposite Raúl Juliá's Gomez, but the star of this movie is the lovely Joan Cusack who brings charm and charisma to Debbie as she tries to find a place in Fester's heart and is wonderfully funny as she tries to bump him off in various ways.
Full of Gothic exuberance, this movie gives us the perfect version of the creepy and kooky Addams Family to date.
~~Nikki~~