{"id":94622,"date":"2025-11-25T15:16:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackgirlnerds.com\/?p=94622"},"modified":"2025-11-25T15:17:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:17:03","slug":"cult-classics-revisiting-the-twisted-unofficial-thanksgiving-dark-comedy-addams-family-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackgirlnerds.com\/cult-classics-revisiting-the-twisted-unofficial-thanksgiving-dark-comedy-addams-family-values\/","title":{"rendered":"Cult Classics: Revisiting the Twisted, Unofficial Thanksgiving Dark Comedy \u2018Addams Family Values\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In 1991, director Barry Sonnenfeld (Schmigadoon!<\/em><\/a>) reintroduced us to cartoonist Charles Addams\u2019 delightfully macabre family who first graced the pages of the New Yorker<\/em> in his movie The Addams Family<\/em>. But with Paul Rudnick\u2019s (Sister Act<\/em>) sharp, satirical follow-up script, Addams Family Values <\/em>could be a standalone movie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Addams Family<\/em> set the stage but the sequel outdid its predecessor. It\u2019s not even necessary to see the first one to understand the events of the second. Despite not meeting the criteria of a holiday-themed movie, it was released on November 19, 1993, and yes, all the semi-wholesome weirdness still holds up 29 years later (as does Tag Team’s Addams Family theme and “Whoomp! (There It Is)<\/a>” remix).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Addams Family Values<\/em> begins with eternal lovebirds Morticia<\/a> (Anjelica Huston) and Gomez Addams (Ra\u00fal Juli\u00e1) welcoming their third child, Pubert (Kaitlyn and Kristen Hooper), whom homicidal siblings Wednesday (Christina Ricci) and Pugsley (Jimmy Workman) immediately hate. With the addition of the little mustachioed baby, the Addamses need a nanny. Enter the beautiful but seemingly ordinary Debbie Jellinsky (Joan Cusack), who\u2019s a black widow<\/a> serial killer with a growing body count. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oddly enough, this plot is very similar to The Addams Family<\/a><\/em>, which sees the greedy Abigail Craven (Elizabeth Wilson) and her son Gordon, aka Uncle Fester (Christopher Lloyd) with amnesia, trying to con the Addamses out of the family fortune. But Debbie is a much better villain. She may be a blonde bombshell dressed in white but her wickedly dark sense of humor immediately vibes with the Addamses, making her quite the unique normie. I mean, her reaction to Thing (Christopher Hart), a sentient disembodied hand, is putting its finger in her mouth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wednesday sees through Debbie just like she saw<\/a> through Craven and Gordon\/Fester before he was struck by memory-restoring lightning. In true evil stepmother fashion, Debbie gets Wednesday and Pugsley sent off to summer camp where they can\u2019t derail her plans. Soon after, the literal golddigger Debbie \u201cI want you dead and I want your money\u201d Jellinsky becomes an Addams and the newlyweds move into a McMansion decked out in pastels. Her failed attempts to kill her rich husband are more like murderous foreplay since it\u2019s implied Fester is somehow immortal, or at the very least extremely durable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Over at Camp Chippewa, Wednesday and Pugsley meet Gary Granger (Peter MacNicol) and Becky Martin-Granger (Christine Baranski), the demented, painfully cheerful counselors who mostly speak in platitudes. There\u2019s also the quintessential ’90s era mean girl Amanda Buckman (Mercedes McNab), who immediately critiques their black outfits. (McNab appeared in The Addams Family<\/em> as a Girl Scout selling cookies.) Among their fellow outcasts is the sweet and nerdy Joel Glicker (David Krumholtz). He\u2019s entranced by Wednesday\u2019s boldness, and she tolerates him, sparking a beautiful awkward romance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Addams Family Values<\/em> called out white privilege before it was cool. In a 2018 interview with The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a>, Paul Rudnick discussed the film\u2019s political commentary and the conservative \u201cfamily values\u201d slogan of the early 1990s, saying, \u201cIn Republican terms, \u2018family values\u2019 is always code for censorship and exclusion\u2026I like to believe that the Addams Family is far more loving and accepting than their enemies.\u201d Camp Chippewa is essentially a camp for Young Republicans where everyone is white, blonde, and khaki\u2019d. Anyone outside those parameters is the \u201cother,\u201d and therefore, cast as Native Americans, or as Amanda\u2019s Sarah Miller calls them (twice) \u201csavages.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why this summer camp is putting on a whitewashed historically inaccurate Thanksgiving play is never addressed but it seems to further illustrate just how out of touch these people are. Gary\u2019s (racist, ableist, classist) vision crumbles when Wednesday gets real about the holiday\u2019s genocidal origins and leads the other outcasts in setting everything ablaze. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wednesday\u2019s not the only one who delivers an epic monologue. Gomez has an on-brand over-the-top theatrical breakdown about his brother, and Debbie gives an impassioned speech justifying her criminal past, complete with a slideshow. If she didn\u2019t want to specifically kill them, the Addamses would have lovedhaving her around. They\u2019re advocates for chaos but a brotherly bond comes first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But let\u2019s talk about Debbie\u2019s majorly covetable wardrobe. Her soft, light-colored ensembles are quite striking against the usual gloomy gothic surroundings. As she maneuvers her way into Fester\u2019s life, her look goes from chic nanny prospect to virginal seductress to husband-killing femme fatale<\/a>, headscarf, and all. Costume designer Theoni V. Aldredge (Ghostbusters<\/em>) perfectly crafted all the Addamses’ signature looks, though Gomez\u2019s dashing suits and Morticia\u2019s tight black dresses are standouts. The Addams matriarch always has an unearthly glow highlighting her eyes (thanks to Huston\u2019s contractually required key light). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Addams Family Values<\/em> is an endlessly quotable ’90s gem that should have a place in your Thanksgiving movie rotation if there is such a thing \u2014 not because it takes place on the actual holiday or teaches us about sharing with others, but because the bizarre family unit celebrates their love for one another daily. They\u2019re ghoulish and they revel in violence, but they\u2019re also a deeply devoted family. It\u2019s also just a genuinely hilarious movie with a talented cast playing their collectively strange characters to perfection. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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