The Addams Family
Weird Is Relative
Country
Production
Budget
$30 000 000
Box office
$191 502 426
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Scott Rudin, Graham Place
Camera operator
Composer
Artist
Richard Macdonald, Erin M. Cummins, Paul Sonski
Audition
Editing
Short description
When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a celebration to wake the dead. But the kids barely have time to warm up the electric chair before Morticia begins to suspect Fester is fraud when he can't recall any of the details of Fester's life.
What's left behind the scenes
- The idea for the film originated as follows. Scott Rudin (who served as a producer on the film) was riding in a van with other executives from 20th Century Fox – Barry Diller, Leonard Goldberg (1934-2019), and Tom Sherak (1945-2014) – after seeing a movie, when Sherak’s son suddenly began to sing the theme song from the television series “The Addams Family” (1964-1966), and everyone joined in. The next day, Rudin suggested to Diller and Goldberg that they make a film about the Addams Family, and they agreed.
- The film is based on the eponymous 1960s series and the comics by Charles Addams.
- The actors involved in the project were not entirely pleased with the storyline concerning Uncle Fester; initially, it was intended to remain unknown whether Gordon, who suffers from amnesia and closely resembles Uncle Fester, was actually Fester. Two weeks before filming began, the actors asked Christina Ricci to approach Scott Rudin and Barry Sonnenfeld with a request not to make Fester an imposter. According to Sonnenfeld, the only actor who didn’t care about this question at all was Christopher Lloyd, who played Fester.
- To make Anjelica Huston's eyes look slightly slanted, like Morticia's in the original series, makeup artists lifted the corners of her eyes using threads secured with theatrical glue.
- About a month after filming began, cinematographer Owen Roizman left for another project. Gale Tatterson was hired to replace him, but shortly after starting, he ended up in the hospital. Director Barry Sonnenfeld grew tired of it all and took over the duties of the cinematographer himself, deciding that he had nothing to lose because if something happened to him, the project would simply be shut down. He already had prior experience working as a cinematographer.
- The idea for the film came about as follows. Scott Rudin (who served as a producer on this film) was riding in a van with other executives from 20th Century Fox—including Barry Diller, Leonard Goldberg (1934-2019), and Tom Scharak (1945-2014)—after watching a movie, when Scharak's son suddenly started singing the theme song from the series 'The Addams Family' (1964-1966), and everyone present joined in. The next day, Rudin suggested to Diller and Goldberg that they make a film about the Addams family, and they agreed.
- The film is based on the television series of the same name from the 1960s and the comics by Charles Addams.
- To make Angelica Huston’s eyes appear slightly slanted, like Morticia’s in the original series, makeup artists lifted the corners of her eyes with threads secured in place with theatrical adhesive.
- According to Angelica Houston, Christina Ricci herself came up with the sleeping pose for her character (with her arms crossed on her chest).
- The construction of the Addams Family house cost $100,000.
- According to Angelica Huston, Christina Ricci came up with her character's sleeping pose (with arms crossed over the chest) on her own.
- When working on the image of Morticia, actress Angelica Huston drew inspiration not from Carolyn Jones’s (1930-1983) performance of the role in the original series (1964-1966), but from watching the documentary drama “Grey Gardens” (1975) by directors David Maysles (1931-1987) and Albert Maysles (1926-2015) about two elderly women living in a dilapidated mansion. Edith “Little Edie” Bouvier Beale (1917-2002) and Edith Bouvier Beale (1896-1977), aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy (1929-1994), played the roles.
- Approximately a month after filming began, cinematographer Owen Roizman moved on to another project. Gale Tattersall was hired to replace him, but shortly after starting work, he ended up in the hospital. Director Barry Sonnenfeld had had enough of this, and he took on the duties of cinematographer himself, deciding he had nothing to lose, because if anything happened to him, the project would simply be shut down. He already had experience as a cinematographer.
- While working on the character of Morticia, actress Anjelica Huston drew inspiration not from Carolyn Jones' (1930-1983) performance in the original series (1964-1966), but from watching the documentary drama 'Grey Gardens' (1975) by directors David Maysles (1931-1987) and Albert Maysles (1926-2015) about two elderly women living in a decaying mansion. Their roles were played by Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale (1917-2002) and Edith Bouvier Beale (1896-1977), who were the aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy (1929-1994).
- The actors involved in the project were not entirely fond of Uncle Fester's storyline; it was originally intended that it would remain unknown whether Gordon, who suffers from memory loss and looks very much like Uncle Fester, was actually Fester. Two weeks before filming began, the actors asked Christina Ricci to approach Scott Rudin and Barry Sonnenfeld with a request not to make Fester an impostor. According to Sonnenfeld, the only actor who absolutely didn't care about this issue was Christopher Lloyd, who played Fester.
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