The Addams Family

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld

1991 / 99min / DCP

Among the most perfectly cast Hollywood studio films of the last half-century, cinematographer-cum-director Sonnenfeld’s adaptation of Charles Addams’s macabre recurring New Yorker feature stars Raul Julia as the suave patriarch of the Addams clan (“You lady-killer…” “Acquitted!”), Anjelica Huston as his waxen, witchy bride, and an outstanding preadolescent Christina Ricci as doomy daughter Wednesday. A drolly dark comedy that moves with the fearsome speed of a 1930s screwball, thanks to the surgical precision of Dede Allen’s editing.