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The Addams Family 1991

- 99 Minutes
- Paramount Pictures
- Language English with English subtitles
- Country USA
- Rated: PG-13
- Format: Widescreen
- Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld
- Written by Caroline Thompson, Larry Wilson
- Starring Anjelica Huston, Carel Struycken, Christina Ricci, Christopher Lloyd, Dan Hedaya, Elizabeth Wilson, Jimmy Workman, Judith Malina, Raul Julia

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Ghouls

Synopsis:

Come join the Addams Family for the most hilarious scarefest of this season or any other! When long-lost Uncle Fester (Christopher Lloyd) reappears after twenty-five years in the Bermuda Triangle, Gomez (Raul Julia) and Morticia (Anjelica Huston) plam a celebration to wake the dead. But Wednesday (Christina Ricci) barely has time to warm up her electric chair before Thing points out Fester's uncommonly "normal" behavior. Could this Fester be fake, part of an evil scheme to raid the Addams fortune? Based on Charles Addam' beloved cartoon and following the sucess of the hit TV series, The Addams Family is a visual funhouse packed with plenty of treats, tricks and turns by director Barry Sonnenfeld.

Won: Top Box Office Films, 1992 ASCAP Film Television and Music Awards

Nominated: Best Costume Design, 1992 Academy Awards; Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical (Huston), 1992 Golden Globes

Review:

"More than merely a sequel of the TV series, the film is a compendium of paterfamilias Charles Addams's macabre drawings, a resurrection of the cartoonist's body of work." -- Rita Kempley, THE WASHINGTON POST

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Genres: Comedy, Fantasy