Addams Family Reunion

Addams Family Reunion
Addams Family Reunion VHS cover
Directed by	Dave Payne
Produced by	Mike Elliott
Written by	Charles Addams (characters) Rob Kerchner Scott Sandin
Starring	Daryl Hannah Tim Curry Ed Begley, Jr. Ray Walston Kevin McCarthy Estelle Harris Alice Ghostley Carel Struycken Haylie Duff Nicole Fugere Jerry Messing
Music by	Amotz Plessner
Cinematography	Christian Sebaldt
Editing by	J. J. Jackson
Studio	Fox Family Films
Distributed by	Warner Home Video
Release date(s)	September 22, 1998
Running time	91 min.
Country	USA
Language	English
Preceded by	Addams Family Values

Addams Family Reunion is the third movie of The Addams Family series, released straight-to-video in 1998. It was also distributed to television by Fox Family. There are no plans for a fourth film. So far, the film is only available on VHS and hasn't had a DVD release. It was shot in Los Angeles, California. Uncle Fester's surname was changed back to Frump in this motion picture.

Plot

Discovering that his grandparents have developed "Waltzheimer's disease", Gomez organises a family reunion, hoping that some branch of his enormous family tree will find a cure. Unfortunately, the company arranging the reunion misspells his surname and reunites him with the Adams family instead, including Dr. Philip Adams (Ed Begley, Jr.) who plans to poison his father and re-arrange his will.

Gomez hopes that Dr. Adams can cure his grandparents; Morticia spends time with the women; Fester and Thing do their best to capture Butcher, a mutated puppy who feeds on human hair; and Pugsley falls in love with a girl named Gina.

Cast

Many of the cast members from the previous movies did not return for this installment. Raul Julia had passed away due to a stroke (which was why an earlier attempt to film a third Addams Family movie had been abandoned), Carol Kane, Anjelica Huston and Christopher Lloyd declined, and Christina Ricci and Jimmy Workman (both aged 18 at the time) were considered too old to continue playing the children. In the end, only Carel Struycken and Christopher Hart reprised their roles.

• Daryl Hannah as Morticia Addams
• Tim Curry as Gomez Addams
• Patrick Thomas as Uncle Fester Frump
• Ed Begley, Jr. as Dr. Philip Adams
• Carel Struycken as Lurch
• Christopher Hart as Thing
• Alice Ghostley as Granny Frump (Grandmama)
• Nicole Fugere as Wednesday Addams
• Jerry Messing as Pugsley Addams
• Kevin McCarthy as Grandpa Addams
• Estelle Harris as Grandma Addams
• Haylie Duff as Gina Adams

External links

• Addams Family Reunion at the Internet Movie Database