The Addams Family (2019 film)

The Addams Family is a 2019 computer-animated supernatural black comedy film directed by Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan and based on the characters created by Charles Addams. The film stars the voices of Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Chloë Grace Moretz, Finn Wolfhard, Nick Kroll, Snoop Dogg, Bette Midler, and Allison Janney.

The film was theatrically released in the United States and in Canada by United Artists Releasing on October 11, 2019. It received mixed reviews from critics for its narrative and screenplay, though the voice acting and animation were praised, and grossed $203 million on a $24 million budget.

It is the final project for Kelly Asbury, who served as a story consultant, before his death a year after the film's release in June 2020.

A sequel was released on October 1, 2021.

Plot

An angry mob of villagers that rejects anything macabre in nature disrupts the midnight wedding ceremony of Gomez and Morticia and drives them away with the rest of the Addams clan. During the chaos, 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 driving their 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 "Sabre 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.

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, starting with spreading rumors about the Addamses through social media, claiming that they are freaks. Wednesday then meets Margaux's neglected daughter Parker and persuades 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 stands up for Parker and her twin friends Layla and Kayla from the school's bully 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 household, 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. Margaux catches the two and locks them in the attic, but Wednesday breaks them out. Margaux rallies the townsfolk 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. Assimilation's civilians see that the Addamses are not monsters, but a family, as Wednesday and Parker states that everyone is weird in their own unique way, revealing also Margaux's spying on the civilians, who are violated upon hearing this. Margaux's agent Glenn carries a message from the network stating that her show is now cancelled for her crimes thanks to Parker exposing her mother's true nature by live-streaming her tirade against the civilians with her phone. As Fester comes up with a compromise for Margaux, Assimilation's civilians offer to make amends with the Addamses.

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.

Voice cast


 * Oscar Isaac as Gomez Addams, Morticia's husband and Wednesday and Pugsley's father
 * Charlize Theron as Morticia Addams (née Frump), Gomez's wife and Wednesday and Pugsley's mother
 * Chloë Grace Moretz as Wednesday Addams, Gomez and Morticia's daughter, Pugsley's older sister, and a mad science child prodigy.
 * Finn Wolfhard as Pugsley Addams, Gomez and Morticia's son and Wednesday's younger brother
 * Nick Kroll as Uncle Fester, Gomez's older brother, Morticia's brother-in-law and Wednesday and Pugsley's uncle
 * Snoop Dogg as Itt, Gomez and Fester's hairy cousin
 * Bette Midler as Grandmama, Gomez and Fester's mother, Morticia's mother-in-law and Wednesday and Pugsley's paternal grandmother
 * Allison Janney as Margaux Needler, a sly and greedy reality TV show host and homemaking guru
 * 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, Gomez' aunt, and Wednesday and Pugsley's great-aunt with a missing left eye and stilts under her dress who judges Pugsley's Mazurka
 * Elsie Fisher as Parker Needler, Margaux's neglected and rebellious daughter who befriends Wednesday
 * Conrad Vernon as:
 * Lurch, the Addams Family's butler
 * A unnamed priest that presides over Gomez and Morticia's family that is related to them
 * The spirit of the house
 * Dr. Flambé, a devil-like relative of the Addams family who can light his head on fire.
 * 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 the barista, who works in Assimilation
 * Chelsea Frei as Bethany, a popular girl who frequently bullies and antagonizes 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, an inhabitant of Assimilation and the husband of Trudy
 * Williams also voices Ggerri