Kicking off spooky movie season with a classic!
I'm not sure if I'm biased, but it feels like this holds up insanely well for being 34 years old. Other movies from 1991 look and feel considerably more dated. Maybe part of it is the wardrobe not being especially tied to the era, along with no pop culture references.
Favorite (Not Necessarily Best) Four From Every Year Since Birth
The Addams Family
Weird Is Relative
Rating
5.0 (1)
Release Date
11/22/1991Runtime
100 minsOverview
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.
How It Feels
Read from this film's synopsis, keywords and credits, and used to work out what it sits beside.
A delightfully macabre romp through a haunted mansion where the most dysfunctional family on earth gets caught up in an elaborate scheme involving a mysterious Fester impostor. It's genuinely funny, gorgeously creepy, and utterly enchanted by its own weirdness.
Mood
PlayfulWhimsical
Themes
FamilyIdentity
Tone
Comedic
Pacing
Brisk
Look
FormalistPainterlyStylized genre
Structure
Linear
Heads up
Graphic violence
Raúl Juliá
Gomez Addams
Anjelica Huston
Morticia Addams
Christopher Lloyd
Uncle Fester
Christina Ricci
Wednesday Addams
Carel Struycken
Lurch
Dan Hedaya
Tully Alford
Jimmy Workman
Pugsley Addams
Elizabeth Wilson
Abigail Craven / Dr. Greta Pinder-Schloss
Dana Ivey
Margaret Alford / Margaret Addams
Judith Malina
Grandma
Paul Benedict
Judge Womack
Christopher Hart
Thing
Reviews
The Addams Family was perfect in 1991, and it is still perfect 33 years later. Like all offbeat millennial girlies, I was obsessed with Wednesday. I also loved to put my hair in front of my face, put my glasses on, and pretend to be Cousin Itt.
Favorite (Not Necessarily Best) Four From Every Year Since Birth
Addams Family Collection
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