This is one of my sister's favorite movies. She often says that if everyone had a relationship like Gomez and Morticia, no one would ever feel unwanted.
-Two con artists have a plan of getting money out of an eccentric family using a man claiming to be their long lost uncle
-Raul Julia: Gomez Addams
-Anjelica Huston: Morticia Addams
-Christopher Lloyd: Uncle Fester Addams
-Dan Hedaya: Tully Alford
-Elizabeth Wilson: Abigail Craven
-Carel Struycken: Lurch Addams
-Dana Ivey: Margaret Alford
-Paul Benedict: Judge Womack
-Christina Ricci: Wednesday Addams
-Jimmy Workman: Pugsley Addams
-Christopher Hart: Thing
-After the premier of the movie, children would see Raul Julia out in public and recognize him as Gomez Addams. This brought a smile to his face. He said this was his favorite role and that, according to his family, this recognition was especially important to him during the final months of his life. It was important to him because he loved making kids happy
-Christina Ricci improvised the sleeping position for Wednesday, which was sleeping with her arms folded across her chest
-Wednesday's name was inspired by the Mother Goose poem that includes the line "Wednesday's child is full of woe."
-In the original TV series from 1964, Uncle Fester Addams was the brother of Morticia's mother. In this film, he is the brother of Gomez
-On the original TV show, the Addams family had a pet lion named Kitty. In the part of the film where Gomez is entering the vault for the first time, a lion's roar can be heard. He is also seen and heard cracking a whip and saying "Down, Kitty!"
-To get Morticia's rigid figure, Anjelica Huston wore a metal corset. She also endured getting gauze eye lifts, fake nails applied and neck tucks
-By the time this movie had gone into production, most of the adult cast from the original TV show had passed, except for John Astin, who played Gomez. He outlived Raul Julia, who played the film version of Gomez and died in 1994. He also outlived Ken Weatherwax, who played Pugsley on the TV show, who died in 2014
-Bruno Kirby, who starred in The Godfather, Pt. II, lent his fat suit to Christopher Lloyd to play Uncle Fester
-During the scene where Fester comes to the Addams house, his suitcase bears stickers from locations known for horrible events and disasters, such as Elba, Jonestown, The Bermuda Triangle, Death Valley, The Black Hole of Calcutta, Three Mile Island, Alcatraz, Pompeii, Devil's Island among others
-The car that the Addams family uses is a 1932 Packard Twin Six
-Olivia Hussey and Cher were considered for the role of Morticia
-When this movie came out, Christina Ricci was only 11 years old
-The book that unlocks the vault is titled "Greed" and authored by J.P. Addams. This is a nod to American banking legend John Pierpoint Morgan, aka JP Morgan, whose bank is still operating to this day, only under the name Chase Bank
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