Nov 06, 2019 having a friendsgiving instead of a typical family thanksgiving. In 1991, barry sonnenfeld directed the original movie the addams family, about the cartoonist charles addamss famously morbid clan. This sequel to the addams family has one of the best thanksgiving pageant scenes ever committed to film. The addams family try to rescue their beloved uncle fester from his golddigging new love, a black widow named debbie. Addams family values wednesday addams, played by christina ricci, is wearing the costume of pocahontas for the thanksgiving play at camp. I dont think id seen the first movie, or knew that it existed. Addams family values is one of those rare sequels that while being practically the same movie with a plot revolving around uncle fester and his fortune which could, under the wrong hands, affect the entire addams family, redone with a different villainess, is actually better than the original. Christina ricci and the dude who played pugsley are around 40 years old. Addams family values script transcript from the screenplay. From the addams family to the corleone clan, these are the movie families that our panel of film critics want to join for turkey day.
Happy thanksgiving from wednesday addams wednesday. Nov 25, 2019 gather the whole family for these best thanksgiving movies. I watched addams family values for the first time when i was 11 years old. Apr, 2017 wednesdays revolt, from the 1993 film addams family values. Gather the whole family for these best thanksgiving movies. This movie came out the week before thanksgiving that year, just in time to give everyone a great place to go to escape the family. They live with all of the trappings of the macabre including a detached hand for a servant and are quite wealthy. Addams family values wednesdays thanksgiving scene monologue. You might think thats because there are only a few thanksgiving movies and the rare thanksgiving episodes in various tv shows, but you would be wrong. Addams family values 1993 wednesdays revolt youtube. The 16 best movie families to visit for thanksgiving. Eat us because were good and deadchop off our legs and put them in your mouth.
Addams family values is a 1993 american comedy film directed by barry sonnenfeld and written by paul rudnick, based on the characters created by charles addams. Addams family values its the most turkeyfilled time of the year and to get you in the mood, heres a roundup of 11 absolutely wonderful thanksgiving scenes from film. Addams family values is the perfect thanksgiving movie unlike some more serious thanksgiving films, the cult classic dismantles the whitewashed notions of the holiday by esra erol nov 25. Funny, outlandish, and completely iconic, the addams family redefines what it means to be a good neighbor. The movieclips channel is the largest collection of licensed movie clips. The addams family steps out of charles addams cartoons. Whether you want to watch a thanksgiving movie for kids or a funny thanksgiving comedy that adults can enjoy, these family friendly films are just the thing. Sharpen those carving knives, you got family coming over. This year, we depict perhaps the most important day in our shared past. The thanksgiving play is the centerpiece of addams family values and is the sequence i used to rewind and watch over and over again with my sister while we were growing up. Nov 25, 2014 addams family values its the most turkeyfilled time of the year and to get you in the mood, heres a roundup of 11 absolutely wonderful thanksgiving scenes from film and television. Sequels rarely live up to their predecessor and thats what makes this movie so special. This time around, gomez addams raul julia and his wife, morticia anjelica huston, are.
The first is a celebration of family, whether actual kin or a makeshift community. The best thanksgiving movies that arent about thanksgiving. The 1991 addams family was a thanksgiving movie, so the costume licensing came the following year, in time for halloween 1992. Addams family values is a brilliant thanksgiving film the atlantic. Simplicity had two costume patterns, for children and adults. Gomez adams is an extremely wealthy man and is able to indulge his wife morticias every desire, whether its cultivation of poisonous plants or a candlelit dinner in a graveyard. Addams family values had secret political message, reveals. Nov 20, 2018 the ideal thanksgiving movie has at least two ingredients. Oct 14, 2019 with a new addams family movie in theaters, a look back at the portrayal of one of its most popular family members over the years. Ruth myers costumes won her her first academy award nomination. Wait, before you protest and say the 1993 dark comedy is a halloween movie, hear us out. Nov 19, 2018 the addams family are the definitive movie family and the only choice for a lifelong weirdo and moody goth like me.
The strange and bizarre antics of the addams family continue in the offthewall sequel addams family values. What addams family values thanksgiving speech can teach us about the. Oct 26, 2010 addams family wednesday burns it all down. What addams family values thanksgiving speech can teach us about the holiday. From road trips to family drama, heists to satire, here are 10 of the best thanksgiving movies. Nov 15, 2017 the addams family is back and this time, their antics are aimed at protecting uncle fester from a golddigging widower. The members of the odd addams family are up to more macabre antics in this sequel. Addams family thanksgiving turkey day song full scene youtube. The 16 best movie families to visit for thanksgiving indiewire. Growing up, my favorite thanksgiving movie was addams family values, the 1993 sequel to the movie the addams family. Dare we say the second chapter in the story of the creepy, kooky, and spooky brood is better than the first. That year, i dressed up as wednesday addams in the. The film is a perfect cup of dry cider with just the barest undertone of sweetness. Every thanksgiving, i recall a song for the holiday.
Nov 25, 2014 i watched addams family values for the first time when i was 11 years old. The best thanksgiving movies and tv episodes to watch to. Addams family values 1993 addams family values 1993. I want to start a petition for a live action addams family. Addams family values wednesdays thanksgiving scene. Everyone needs to brush up on their thanksgiving factsthe hilarious thanksgiving play in this movie. Its hard to find a thanksgiving themed movie that will entertain absolutely everyone and not offend, since so much of the cinema centered on this particular. An abridged version of the thanksgiving play from addams family values 1993.
Best thanksgiving movies 11 classic comedies and dramas to make your turkey day complete, and where to watch them. Nov 08, 2019 so, its not technically a thanksgiving movie in fact, it has nothing to do with thursday and everything to do with sunday dinner. Then this movie is perfect for the ultimate bff movie night and remembering why your friends are the best. With anjelica huston, raul julia, christopher lloyd, joan cusack. Why i love addams family values thanksgiving play film. The one to the original movie was a platformer where the player controlled gomez and traveled across the addams familys mansion to battle bosses in order to rescue the rest of the family with the pc engine version instead having tully alford as the player character and the objective being to journey through the house and fight the members of. Were counting this one because of the play wednesday and pugsley addams are forced. What addams family values thanksgiving speech can teach. The story follows a black widow who poses as the addams new nanny and attempts to. Wednesdays thanksgiving speech in addams family values is.
The family stone, starring diane keaton, rachel mcadams, sarah jessica parker, and clare danes, is a film about one womans desperate attempts to win over her boyfriends family during the. The many shades of wednesday addams the new york times. Addams family values 1993 thanksgiving play scene 8. In 1991, barry sonnenfeld directed the original movie the addams family, about the cartoonist charles addams. Family values quotes addams family values addams family characters the addams family addams family wednesday hairstylist memes charles addams adams family christina ricci released on nov. Every week, indiewire asks a select handful of film critics two questions and publishes the results on monday. While its not based around thanksgiving specifically, the side plot of the film where wednesday christina ricci and pugsley jimmy workman attend a summer camp features one of the its most iconic scenes.
Carel struycken was born in the hague, the netherlands. Addams family values featuring the greatest thanksgiving. The films most famous scene comes during a summer camp play, which the addams childrenwednesday christina ricci and pugsley jimmy workmanare forced to participate in. Added to this mix is a crooked accountant and his loan shark and a plot to slip in the sharks son into the family as their long lost uncle fester. Addams family values 1993 addams family values 1993 is a film you can watch with the whole family. Its hard to find a thanksgivingthemed movie that will entertain absolutely everyone and not offend, since so much of the cinema centered on this particular. From blade runner to addams family values, these five cinematic classics are perfect if nontraditional thanksgiving movies. Addams family values is the perfect thanksgiving movie. But an angry mob of villagers interrupts, driving the clan out of whats presumably eastern europe. Nov 24, 2017 if home for the holidays is the most obvious choice on this list, then addams family values is probably the least. Finally, the addams family values script is here for all you quotes spouting fans of the barry sonnenfeld movie sequel to the addams family. Nov 25, 2019 addams family values is not a thanksgiving movie, but wednesdays speech dismantles the whitewashed notions of the holiday.
How addams family values taught me the racist thanksgiving. Addams family values is a brilliant thanksgiving film. Addams family values is a brilliant thanksgiving film the. Better than the first addams family film, or the classic show. The film features many cast members from the original, including raul julia, anjelica huston, christopher lloyd, christina ricci, carel struycken, jimmy workman, and christopher hart. Aug 20, 20 addams family values thanksgiving play wednesdays turn as a vengeful native american at summer camp is a gloriously funny assault on sterile conformity, says adam boult, in our series on. But this classic about a chicago family who are held together by their matriarch mama jo, has food, family, and soul at its core, and if thats the essence of thanksgiving, then we dont know what it. Apart from that, its also about how families stick together, which is a good thing to be. I rewrote the first addams family movie, though its plot was always freewheeling. Apart from that, its also about how families stick together, which is. The addams family is produced by gail berman, conrad vernon, alex schwartz and alison obrien, with kevin miserocchi, andrew mittman and joe.
Nov 11, 2019 this sequel to the addams family has one of the best thanksgiving pageant scenes ever committed to film. The addams family 2019 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106a, the fair use of a. Sarah miller family thanksgiving thanksgiving prayer the munsters wednesday addams christina ricci movie. When he was four years old his family moved to curacao, an island in the. The addams family s starry voice cast and eyecatching animation arent enough to outweigh its saccharine handling of the delightfully dark source material. Addams family values 1993 pg 1h 34min comedy, fantasy 19 november 1993 usa the addams family try to rescue their beloved uncle fester from his golddigging new love, a black widow named debbie.
Pugsley hams it up as the thanksgiving day turkey, but wednesday, playing pocahontas. Its confrontational, keeping us informed and culpable as viewers and consumers. Whether you want to watch a thanksgiving movie for kids or a funny thanksgiving comedy that adults can enjoy, these familyfriendly films are just the thing. This week, a look at official addams family patterns. Thanksgiving, as told by the addams family think about now. Addams family values thanksgiving play wednesdays turn as a vengeful native american at summer camp is a gloriously funny assault on sterile conformity, says adam boult, in our series on. The first family of halloween, the addams family, is back on the big screen in the first animated comedy about the kookiest family on the block. The best movies to watch on thanksgiving the new york times. Addams family values is a 1993 american comedy film directed by barry sonnenfeld and. Nov 25, 2010 i just hafta post this, not in some stand against thanksgiving or anything, but understand i just really really like addams family xp. The 20 best thanksgiving movies of all time nov 19, 20.