The Addams Family (1991)
| director: | Barry Sonnenfeld |
| release-year: | 1991 |
| genres: | comedy, horror |
| countries: | USA |
| languages: | English |
Uncle Fester has gone missing, and a local conman who looks very much exactly like him (Christopher Lloyd a.k.a Doc) conspires to take his place and steal the Addams fortune. This works out surprisingly well, because the Addams are naïve and overly-trusting buffoons. Angelica Houston, wee-bairn Christina Ricci, and Carel "The Fireman" Struycken are our most important Addams actors.
Very slowly, the family comes to suspect that something is wrong. But it's too late, and the false Fester gains control of their estate and has them evicted.
When the Addams return to fight for their home, the false Fester sees the errors of his ways and fights on their side against his original partners, the Addams' lawyer (the Nixon-looking dad from Clueless) and false-Fester's adoptive mother.
As it turns out, the false Fester was the amnestically factual Fester all along. MC Hammer plays us out, and we wonder why we stopped having themed raps to wrap up films.
