In time for the 25th anniversary of Addams Family Values ’original theatrical release, The Hollywood Reporter spoke to some of the film’s key collaborators about family values, heavy makeup, and dropped eyeballs. But it was a hit with critics and remains popular among fans. The film faltered at the box office, where it earned $48.9 million globally - $140 million shy of the original. In this scene, Wednesday essentially razes the camp counselors’ all-smiles dissembling, and does it with a big, infectious grin of her own. Bush-era slogan of “family values.” Addams Family Values’ political commentary fittingly comes to a head during a Thanksgiving-themed set piece: Wednesday stars in a Thanksgiving play at her laughably conservative summer camp, Camp Chippewa. The Addams Family - led by father Gomez (the late and much-missed Raul Julia) and mother Morticia ( Anjelica Huston), and expanded by the additional presence of newborn son Pubert (Kaitlyn and Kristen Hooper) - may be socially maladjusted, but they’re also genuinely affectionate in ways that screenwriter Rudnick intended as a sharp contrast to the behavior of conservative Americans who rallied behind the George H.W. The 1991 Addams Family necessarily plays up a lot of Addams’ cheeky dad-joke-friendly humor while Addams Family Values puts a much greater emphasis on sarcastic, bratty humor that’s best exemplified by Christina Ricci’s morbid, quippy Wednesday Addams and Joan Cusack’s gold-digging femme fatale Debbie Jellinsky, the latter of whom perfectly underscores the difference between the Addams Family’s monstrous-but-in-a-good-way thing and Debbie’s monstrous-but-in-an- America ’ s– Most– Wanted-way vibe.

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