Addams Family Values
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Addams Family Values is a 1993 American fantasy comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and written by Paul Rudnick, based on the characters created by Charles Addams. It is the sequel to The Addams Family. Addams Family Values follows Debbie Jellinsky, a serial killer who marries Uncle Fester intending to murder him for his inheritance, while teenagers Wednesday and Pugsley are sent to summer camp.
Gomez and Morticia Addams hire a nanny named Debbie Jellinsky to take care of their newborn son Pubert after his older siblings Wednesday and Pugsley's failed attempts to murder him. Unbeknownst to them, Debbie is a serial killer who marries rich bachelors and murders them to collect their inheritances. After Debbie seduces Uncle Fester, Wednesday becomes suspicious of her intentions. To maintain her cover, Debbie tricks Gomez and Morticia into believing that Wednesday and Pugsley want to go to summer camp.
Wednesday and Pugsley are sent to Camp Chippewa, managed by the chipper Gary and Becky Granger, where they're singled out by the counselors and popular and snobbish girl Amanda Buckman for their macabre appearance and behavior. Joel, a nerdy bookworm and fellow outcast, becomes attracted to Wednesday. Debbie and Fester become engaged. At their bachelor and bachelorette parties, Debbie is horrified by the Addams family's relatives. On their honeymoon, she tries to kill Fester by throwing a boombox into the bathtub, but she fails. Frustrated, Debbie forces him to cut ties with his family; when they try to visit Fester and Debbie at their home, they're removed from the premises. The Addams are alarmed to find that Pubert has transformed into a blue-eyed, rosy-cheeked, blond-haired baby. Grandmama diagnoses this as a result of his disrupted family life and Gomez becomes horribly depressed.
At camp, the counselors cast Wednesday as Pocahontas in Gary's Thanksgiving play. When she refuses to participate, she, Pugsley and Joel are sent to the camp's "Harmony Hut," where they're forced to watch several upbeat, heartwarming Disney and family films. Afterwards, Wednesday forges cheerfulness and agrees to take part. During the performance, she returns to her old self, stages a coup with the help of her brother and Joel along with the rest of their fellow outcast campers, captures Amanda, Gary and Becky and sets the camp on fire. The Addams siblings escape via a camp van and Wednesday and Joel share their first kiss.
Debbie tries to kill Fester by blowing up their mansion, but he survives. She then pulls a gun and reveals to him she was only interested in his money; Thing drives Debbie's car into her and helps Fester escape. Fester apologizes to Gomez upon his return to the Addams' house, and Wednesday and Pugsley return, reuniting the family. Debbie takes another car and drives to Fester's house, where she ties the family to electric chairs, explaining - while the Addamses listen with sympathy and compassion - that she killed her parents and previous husbands for incredibly selfish and materialistic reasons. Upstairs, the returned-to-normal Pubert escapes from his crib and, via a series of improbable events, is propelled into the room where the family is being held. Debbie throws the switch to electrocute them, but Pubert manipulates the wires and reverses the current, electrocuting her instead and incinerating her into a pile of ash and credit cards.
Months later at Pubert's first-birthday party, Fester laments Debbie's loss, but soon becomes smitten with Cousin Itt and Margaret's nanny, Dementia. In the Addams family graveyard, Wednesday tells Joel that Debbie was a sloppy killer and she would instead scare her husband to death. As Joel lays flowers on Debbie's grave, a hand (presumably Thing) erupts from the earth and grabs him; he screams and Wednesday smiles.
Gomez and Morticia Addams hire a nanny named Debbie Jellinsky to take care of their newborn son Pubert after his older siblings Wednesday and Pugsley's failed attempts to murder him. Unbeknownst to them, Debbie is a serial killer who marries rich bachelors and murders them to collect their inheritances. After Debbie seduces Uncle Fester, Wednesday becomes suspicious of her intentions. To maintain her cover, Debbie tricks Gomez and Morticia into believing that Wednesday and Pugsley want to go to summer camp.
Wednesday and Pugsley are sent to Camp Chippewa, managed by the chipper Gary and Becky Granger, where they're singled out by the counselors and popular and snobbish girl Amanda Buckman for their macabre appearance and behavior. Joel, a nerdy bookworm and fellow outcast, becomes attracted to Wednesday. Debbie and Fester become engaged. At their bachelor and bachelorette parties, Debbie is horrified by the Addams family's relatives. On their honeymoon, she tries to kill Fester by throwing a boombox into the bathtub, but she fails. Frustrated, Debbie forces him to cut ties with his family; when they try to visit Fester and Debbie at their home, they're removed from the premises. The Addams are alarmed to find that Pubert has transformed into a blue-eyed, rosy-cheeked, blond-haired baby. Grandmama diagnoses this as a result of his disrupted family life and Gomez becomes horribly depressed.
At camp, the counselors cast Wednesday as Pocahontas in Gary's Thanksgiving play. When she refuses to participate, she, Pugsley and Joel are sent to the camp's "Harmony Hut," where they're forced to watch several upbeat, heartwarming Disney and family films. Afterwards, Wednesday forges cheerfulness and agrees to take part. During the performance, she returns to her old self, stages a coup with the help of her brother and Joel along with the rest of their fellow outcast campers, captures Amanda, Gary and Becky and sets the camp on fire. The Addams siblings escape via a camp van and Wednesday and Joel share their first kiss.
Debbie tries to kill Fester by blowing up their mansion, but he survives. She then pulls a gun and reveals to him she was only interested in his money; Thing drives Debbie's car into her and helps Fester escape. Fester apologizes to Gomez upon his return to the Addams' house, and Wednesday and Pugsley return, reuniting the family. Debbie takes another car and drives to Fester's house, where she ties the family to electric chairs, explaining - while the Addamses listen with sympathy and compassion - that she killed her parents and previous husbands for incredibly selfish and materialistic reasons. Upstairs, the returned-to-normal Pubert escapes from his crib and, via a series of improbable events, is propelled into the room where the family is being held. Debbie throws the switch to electrocute them, but Pubert manipulates the wires and reverses the current, electrocuting her instead and incinerating her into a pile of ash and credit cards.
Months later at Pubert's first-birthday party, Fester laments Debbie's loss, but soon becomes smitten with Cousin Itt and Margaret's nanny, Dementia. In the Addams family graveyard, Wednesday tells Joel that Debbie was a sloppy killer and she would instead scare her husband to death. As Joel lays flowers on Debbie's grave, a hand (presumably Thing) erupts from the earth and grabs him; he screams and Wednesday smiles.