Gomez starts to suspect that "Fester" is an impostor when he is unable to recall important details about their past. Gordon learns the reason for the brothers' falling-out: Gomez was jealous of Fester's success with women, and wooed the conjoined twins Flora and Fauna Amor away from him out of envy. Gomez, overjoyed to have "Fester" back, takes him to the family vault to view home movies from their childhood. Greta Pinder-Schloss and tells the family that Fester had been lost in the Bermuda Triangle for the past 25 years until she found him in some tuna nets.
Gordon arrives, posing as Fester, while Abigail poses as a German psychiatrist named Dr. Tully and his wife Margaret attend a séance at the Addams home led by Grandmama in which the family tries to contact Fester's spirit. Tully proposes that Gordon pose as Fester to infiltrate the Addams household and find the hidden vault where they keep their vast riches. Gomez's lawyer Tully Alford owes money to loan shark/ con artist Abigail Craven, and notices that her adopted son Gordon closely resembles Fester. Gomez Addams laments the 25-year absence of his brother Fester, who disappeared after the two had a falling-out. The film was commercially successful, making back almost seven times its production costs, and was followed by a sequel, Addams Family Values, two years later.
The rise in production costs from the film's $25 million budget to $30 million led Orion, financially struggling and fearful of another big-budget flop, to sell the film to Paramount, who completed the film and handled the film's domestic distribution, while Orion distributed the film internationally through Columbia Pictures. The film was noted for its turbulent production originally developed at Orion, the film went $5 million over budget due to constant rewrites throughout shooting health problems of people involved in the filming and an overall stressful filming for Sonnenfeld himself, which caused multiple delays.
The film focuses on a bizarre, macabre, aristocratic family who reconnect with whom they believe to be a long-lost relative, Gomez's brother Fester Addams. Directed by former cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld in his screen directing debut, the film stars Anjelica Huston, who was nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance as Morticia Addams, Raul Julia as Gomez Addams, and Christopher Lloyd as Fester Addams. The Addams Family is a 1991 American supernatural black comedy film based on the characters from the cartoon created by cartoonist Charles Addams and the 1964 TV series produced by David Levy.
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