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Addams Family Values (1993)

★ 7.0 · 3,290 ratings on TMDB

The family just got a little stranger.

Addams Family Values poster★ 7.0

Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy adored by parents Gomez and Morticia. Things go from bad to worse when the new "black widow" nanny, Debbie Jellinsky, launches her plan to add Fester to her collection of dead husbands.

DirectorBarry Sonnenfeld
CastAnjelica Huston, Carol Kane, Christina Ricci, Christine Baranski, Christopher Lloyd, David Krumholtz
GenresComedy, Family, Fantasy
The emergence reading

Addams Family Values keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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