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The Addams Family (2019)

★ 6.6 · 2,479 ratings on TMDB

Think your family is weird?

The Addams Family poster★ 6.6

The Addams family's lives begin to unravel when they face-off against a treacherous, greedy crafty reality-TV host while also preparing for their extended family to arrive for a major celebration.

DirectorConrad Vernon, Greg Tiernan
CastAllison Janney, Bette Midler, Catherine O'Hara, Charlize Theron, Chloë Grace Moretz, Finn Wolfhard
GenresAnimation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
The emergence reading

The Addams Family keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, conformity, identity, media, family.

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Also inFilms about familyFilms about prejudiceFilms about identity
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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

Paddington (2014)E8/E9/E10 · family, identityHotel Transylvania: Transformania (2022)E8/E9/E10 · family, identityTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)E8/E9/E10 · identity, mediaTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)E8/E9/E10 · family, identityKPop Demon Hunters (2025)E8/E9/E10 · identity, mediaThe Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea (2000)E8/E9/E10 · family, identity

Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)E13/E14 · rare rung · conformity, identityTMNT (2007)E6/E11 · rare rung · family, identityX-Men: The Mutant Watch (2000)E11/E12 · rare rung · identity, prejudice

Same people

Shared director or cast.

The Addams Family 2 (2021)dir. Conrad VernonSausage Party (2016)dir. Conrad VernonShrek 2 (2004)dir. Conrad VernonOver the Hedge (2006)Allison JanneyFrankenweenie (2012)Catherine O'HaraBombshell (2019)Allison Janney