I was watching this the other day, and I was wondering how I was going to connect it to spirituality, and it wasn't until I had finished the film and was thinking about it that I came up with the overarching theme: Love, and how it can change someone.
Gomez Addams (Raul Julia) had a fight with his brother, Fester, 25 years ago, and Fester subsequently took off in anger. Now with a family of his own, wife Morticia (Anjelica Huston) and children Wednesday (Christina Ricci) and Pugsley (Jimmy Workman) Gomez, feeling great guilt for driving Fester away, has been trying to reach Fester on the other side to make right what he has done. Knowing of their great fortune, the Addams' lawyer (or something), Tully (Dan Hedaya), who owes a large sum to his loan shark, Abigail Craven (Elizabeth Wilson), decides to steal the money from the Addams'. Tully notices that Craven's son, Gordon (Christopher Lloyd) looks a lot like Fester. He devises the plan that Gordon infiltrates the manor, wins their trust, and absconds with the money. Gordon goes in with full intention of following through with this plan, but after being welcomed with such joy and passion, and love that this family has for one of its own, Gordon is transformed into Fester. He becomes this whole new person from what he was before. He turns from a man who wants to dupe these people, to someone who truly loves them because they love him for who he is, or who they think he is.
That's what I got out of the Addams Family. Next week, The Addams Family Values
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