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| Screenplay by | Matt Lieberman |
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| Based on | The Addams Family byCharles Addams |
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| Edited by | David Ian Salter |
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Running time | 86 minutes[3] |
| Countries | Canada United States |
| Languages | English French |
| Budget | $24 million[4] |
| Box office | $203.7 million[4][5] |
The Addams Family is a 2019 animatedsupernaturalcomedy film based onthe characters from the cartoon created byCharles Addams. It was directed byConrad Vernon andGreg Tiernan, and written byMatt Lieberman. The film stars the voices ofOscar Isaac,Charlize Theron,Chloë Grace Moretz,Finn Wolfhard,Nick Kroll,Snoop Dogg,Bette Midler, andAllison 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, and grossed $203 million against a $24 million budget.
A sequel,The Addams Family 2, was released in 2021.
An angry mob of villagers, that rejects anything macabre in nature, disrupts the midnight wedding ceremony ofGomez Addams andMorticia Frump and drives them away with the rest of the Addams clan. During the chaos,Grandmama buysUncle Fester time to evacuate Gomez, Morticia, andThing. Gomez and Morticia decide to move toNew 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 meetLurch, 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 sonPugsley for his upcoming "SabreMazurka", 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 perfectplanned 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 somedead frogs and commands them to attack Bethany. Later on, the two discuss their frustrations and change their dressing habits – Parker becomes moregothic and Wednesday dresses more colorfully – to the shock of both of their mothers, with Margaux vowing to destroy the Addamses and Wednesday grounded by Morticia. After an argument with Morticia, Wednesday decides to run away in secret and stay with Parker for a while, which Pugsley inadvertently tells Morticia.
AsCousin Itt arrives at the Addams household, Wednesday and Parker discover a secret room under Parker's house and 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'strebuchet. Wednesday and Parker join in and help everyone out of the wreckage safely with help of the living tree Ichabod.
Assimilation's civilians realize that the Addamses are not monsters, but a family, as Wednesday and Parker state that everyone is weird in their own unique way, revealing also Margaux's spying on the civilians, who are violated upon hearing this. Margaux gets her comeuppance when her true nature is then exposed during a subsequent tirade against the civilians — demanding they do as she says or be kicked out of town — thanks to Parker live-streaming it on her phone, after which Margaux's agent Glenn informs her their network has cancelled her show because of the bad publicity. 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 is hailed as an Addams for his defending of the clan.
In 2010 afterIllumination Entertainment acquired the rights toThe Addams Family comics, they began work on the film atUniversal Pictures as astop-motion animated film directed byTim Burton and produced byChris Meledandri.[6] After development stopped, however, in 2013,Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) announced that they would produce the animated film based onThe Addams Family comics, withPamela Pettler then writing the screenplay.[7][8] On June 6, 2019, it was announced thatBron 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 byConrad 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,Erica Rivinoja, and Vernon. The film was animated byCinesite Studios andNitrogen Studios with Tabitha Shick overseeing it for MGM.[10][11] In December 2017, it was reported thatOscar Isaac was in talks to voice the role ofGomez Addams in the film.[12] On June 5, 2018, Isaac was officially cast, alongsideCharlize Theron,Allison Janney,Bette Midler,Chloë Grace Moretz,Finn Wolfhard andNick Kroll.[13]Jenna Ortega also auditioned for the role of Wednesday.[14] On July 24, 2018,Aimee Garcia joined the voice cast.[15] On August 30, 2018,Elsie Fisher was added as well.[16] On November 23, 2018,Catherine O'Hara andMartin Short were added as Morticia's parents,[17] On August 7, 2019,Snoop Dogg,Tituss Burgess, andJenifer Lewis joined asCousin Itt, Glenn, and Great Auntie Sloom, respectively.[18]
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Migos,Karol G,Snoop Dogg, andRock Mafia recorded a song for the film called "My Family", which was released on September 13, 2019, and plays during the end credits; whileChristina Aguilera released the song"Haunted Heart" from the film's soundtrack on September 27, 2019, which plays in the film's opening.[19] HeathisHuman created an updated version ofVic Mizzy's original theme song that plays at the film's ending.[20]
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) launched the film with a global promotion partner campaign worth $150 million, their largest ever outside the007 franchise.[21] They spent a total of $72 million on prints and advertisements for the film.[22]
The film was theatrically released byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) throughUnited Artists Releasing (UAR) in North America on October 11, 2019, withUniversal Pictures handling the international rights.[16] It was previously set for October 18, 2019[23][12] before being moved up to October 11, 2019, to avoid direct competition withMaleficent: Mistress of Evil.[24]
The film was released byUniversal Pictures Home Entertainment digitally on December 24, 2019, followed by a DVD and Blu-ray release on January 21, 2020.
The Addams Family grossed $100 million in the United States and Canada and $103 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $203 million.[4][5]Deadline Hollywood calculated the net profit of the film to be $76 million, when factoring together all expenses and revenues.[22]
In the United States and Canada, the film was released alongsideGemini Man andJexi and was projected to gross $28–30 million from 4,007 theaters in its opening weekend.[25] The film made $9.7 million on its first day including $1.25 million from Thursday night previews. It went on to debut to $30.3 million, finishing second behind holdoverJoker.[26] It made $16.3 million in its second weekend, $12 million in its third and $8.2 million in its fourth, finishing fourth, third and sixth, respectively.[27][28][29]
On review aggregation websiteRotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 46% and an average rating of 5.3/10, based on 159 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "The Addams Family's starry voice cast and eye-catching animation aren't enough to outweigh its saccharine handling of the delightfully dark source material."[30] OnMetacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 46 out of 100, based on 22 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[31] Audiences polled byCinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale, whilePostTrak reported that surveyed children and parents gave it 4 and 3.5 out of 5 stars, respectively.[26]
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| 2019 | HMMA Award | Best Original Song – Animated Film ("Haunted Heart") | Christina Aguilera(written and performed by) Antonina Armato(written by) Tim James(written by) | Nominated |
| 2021 | Saturn Awards[32] | Best Animated Film | The Addams Family | Nominated |
On October 15, 2019, it was announced byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer that a sequel was scheduled for release on October 22, 2021, withConrad Vernon andGreg Tiernan reprising their roles as co-directors, andCinesite Studios returning as animators.[21][33][34] On October 8, 2020,Bill Hader andJavon "Wanna" Walton joined the cast; Hader voices a new character named Cyrus, while Walton replacesFinn Wolfhard as the voice of Pugsley. It was also pushed forward two weeks to October 8, 2021.[35] On January 21, 2021, it was again pushed forward one week to October 1, 2021, allowing another MGM film,No Time to Die to take over the slot.[36] In July 2021,Wallace Shawn was revealed to have voiced a new character for the film.[37] In August 2021, the film shifted its release for a simultaneouspremium video on demand rental and theatrical release on the October 1 date, in the United States and Canada, due to theCOVID-19 pandemic and the rising cases of theSARS-CoV-2 Delta variant.[38]
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