The Addams Family (2019 film)

Gomez and Morticia are chased away with the rest of the Addams clan during their wedding ceremony by an angry mob that disapproves of their macabre nature. Grandmama buys Fester time to evacuate Gomez, Morticia, and Thing. Gomez and Morticia decide to move to New Jersey, a place "no one would be caught dead in." There, Gomez, Morticia, and Thing find their "perfect" home in an abandoned asylum on a hill. They meet Lurch, an escaped mental patient whom they hit when Thing was distracted driving the car, and immediately recruit him as their butler.

Thirteen years later, the Addams family continue to live their gloomy lives in isolation from the outside world. Gomez prepares his son Pugsley for his upcoming Mazurka, a rite of passage that every Addams family member takes. Morticia struggles to keep their daughter, Wednesday, from wanting to experience the world outside the mansion after a balloon and confetti appear on their property, and as the fog surrounding it begins to lift.

Elsewhere, reality TV host Margaux Needler, who is building a perfect planned community called "Assimilation" so her show will have a successful season finale, discovers the Addams family's household and becomes determined to rid the town of it when the family refuses to change. Wednesday then meets Margaux's neglected daughter Parker and convinces Morticia to let her attend junior high school. Pugsley struggles with the complicated traditions and pressure of his Mazurka, even with the guidance of Gomez and Uncle Fester. Grandmama arrives at the house for the event.

At school, Wednesday defends Parker and her twin friends Layla and Kayla from the school bully named Bethany and befriends them after she resurrects some dead frogs and commands them to attack Bethany. Later on, the two discuss their frustrations and change their dressing habits – Parker becomes more gothic and Wednesday dresses more colorfully – to the shock of both of their mothers, with Margaux vowing to destroy the Addamses. After an argument with Morticia, Wednesday decides to run away in secret and stay with Parker for a while, which Pugsley inadvertently tells Morticia.

As Cousin Itt arrives at the Addams Family house, Wednesday and Parker discover a secret room under Parker's house revealing that Margaux has planted hidden cameras in every house she designed in town. She has been spreading rumors about the Addamses through social media, claiming that they are freaks. Margaux catches the two and locks them in the attic, but Wednesday breaks them out. Margaux rallies an angry mob to attack the mansion just as the entire Addams clan arrive for Pugsley's Mazurka.

During the Mazurka, Pugsley fails in front of the whole family, but Gomez admits he forgot to let him be who he is. The mob arrives flinging boulders, severely damaging the mansion and trapping the family inside. Pugsley uses his love of bombs and destruction to defend his family and manages to destroy the mob's trebuchet. Wednesday and Parker join in and help everyone out of the wreckage safely with help of the living tree Ichabod.

As Margaux tries to take control once more, her treachery is revealed by Parker. They see that the Addamses are not monsters, but a family, and Wednesday states that everyone is weird in their own unique way, revealing how Margaux had been spying on Assimilation's civilians. Margaux's agent Glenn carries a message from the network stating that her show is now cancelled because Parker was live streaming her tirade against the civilians with her phone. As Fester comes up with a compromise for Margaux, Assimilation's civilians realize the error of their ways.

After they work together to rebuild the mansion, the Addams family and Assimilation's civilians live in peace. Margaux becomes Fester's business partner, selling homes to the other members of the Addams clan, and Pugsley completes his Mazurka.

The film ends with an animated recreation of the intro of the 1964 TV series.

• Oscar Isaac as Gomez Addams, Morticia's husband.
• Charlize Theron as Morticia Addams, Gomez's wife.
• Chloë Grace Moretz as Wednesday Addams, Gomez and Morticia's daughter and Pugsley's older sister.
• Finn Wolfhard as Pugsley Addams, Gomez and Morticia's son and Wednesday's younger brother.
• Nick Kroll as Uncle Fester, Gomez's brother.
• Snoop Dogg as Cousin Itt, Gomez and Fester's hairy cousin.
• Bette Midler as Grandmama Addams, Gomez and Fester's mother.
• Allison Janney as Margaux Needler, a sly and greedy reality TV show host and homemaking guru.
• Conrad Vernon as
  • Lurch, the Addams Family's butler.
  • An unnamed priest that presides over Gomez and Morticia's wedding and is one of their relatives.
  • The spirit that haunts the abandoned asylum Gomez and Mortica move to, demanding the place be left undisturbed.
  • Dr. Flambé, a demon-like relative of the Addams family whose head can light on fire.
• Martin Short as Grandpa Frump, Morticia's late father, whom she contacts through a séance.
• Catherine O'Hara as Grandma Frump, Morticia's late mother, whom she contacts through a séance.
• Tituss Burgess as Glenn, Margaux's agent.
• Jenifer Lewis as Great Auntie Sloom, Grandmama's strict and cold sister with a missing left eye and stilts under her dress that judges Pugsley's Mazurka.
• Elsie Fisher as Parker Needler, Margaux's neglected and rebellious daughter who befriends Wednesday.
• Aimee Garcia as Denise, a camera operator who works for Margaux.
• Scott Underwood as Mitch, a member of Margaux's film crew.
• Mikey Madison as Candi, a barista that works in Assimilation.
• Chelsea Frei as Bethany, the popular girl who picks on Parker.
• Pom Klementieff as Layla and Kayla, twin girls who are Parker's friends.
• Deven Green as Ms. Gravely, a teacher at Parker's school.
• Maggie Wheeler as Trudy Pickering, an inhabitant of Assimilation.
• Harland Williams as Norman Pickering, the husband of Trudy.
  • Williams also voices Ggerri.

In 2010, after Illumination Entertainment acquired the rights to The Addams Family comics, they began work on the film at Universal Pictures as a stop-motion animation directed by Tim Burton and produced by Chris Meledandri.[6] After development stopped, however, in 2013, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures announced that they would produce the animated film based on The Addams Family comics, with Pamela Pettler then writing the screenplay.[7][8] In June 2019, it was announced that Bron Creative is co-financing the film with MGM as part of a multi-picture co-financing agreement with the studio.[9] In October 2017, it was announced that the film would be directed and produced by Conrad Vernon. Additionally, Gail Berman, Alex Schwartz, and Alison O'Brien also produced the film. Matt Lieberman wrote the finished screenplay, with story by credit for Lieberman, Rivinoja, and Vernon. The film was animated by Cinesite Studios, with Tabitha Shick overseeing it for MGM.[10][11] In December 2017, it was reported that Oscar Isaac was in talks to voice the role of Gomez Addams in the film.[12] In June 2018, Isaac was officially cast, alongside Charlize Theron, Allison Janney, Bette Midler, Chloë Grace Moretz, Finn Wolfhard and Nick Kroll.[13] In July 2018, Aimee Garcia joined the voice cast,[14] and in August 2018, Elsie Fisher was added as well.[15] In November 2018, Catherine O'Hara and Martin Short were added as Morticia's parents,[16] and in August 2019, Snoop Dogg, Tituss Burgess, and Jenifer Lewis joined as Cousin Itt, Glenn, and Great Auntie Sloom, respectively.[17]

Migos, Karol G, Snoop Dogg, and Rock Mafia recorded a song for the film called "My Family", which was released on September 13, 2019 and plays during the end credits; while Christina Aguilera released the song "Haunted Heart" from the film's soundtrack on September 27, 2019, which plays in the film's opening.[18] HeathisHuman created an updated version of Vic Mizzy's original theme song that plays at the film's ending.[19]

On October 15, 2019, MGM announced that a sequel, The Addams Family 2 was scheduled to be theatrically released on October 22, 2021, with Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan returning to direct.[22][31] On October 8, 2020, Bill Hader and Javon Walton joined the cast. Hader will play a new character named Cyrus while Walton will replace Finn Wolfhard as the voice of Pugsley while Tiernan will return to direct. On the same day, it was also announced that the film would now be released on October 8, 2021.[32] On January 21, 2021, it was moved up again by one week to October 1, 2021.[33] Nitrogen Studios and Cinesite Studios will return for the sequel as production partners.[34]

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