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The Addams Family is a 2019 American 3D computer-animated comedy horror film based on the comics of the same name by Charles Addams.
The film is directed by Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan, and stars the voices of Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Chloë Grace Moretz, Finn Wolfhard, Nick Kroll, Snoop Dogg, Bette Midler, and Allison Janney.

The film was theatrically released in the United States by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer through United Artists Releasing and by Universal Pictures internationally on October 11, 2019.
The film received mixed reviews from critics and has grossed over $131 million.

A sequel is scheduled to be released on October 22, 2021.

Plot
Gomez and Morticia Addams are chased away with the rest of the Addams clan during their wedding ceremony by an angry mob that disapproves of their macabre nature.
Grandmama buys Uncle Fester time to evacuate Gomez, Morticia, and Thing. Gomez and Morticia decide to move to New 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 meet Lurch, an escaped mental patient whom they hit when Thing was distracted driving the 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 son Pugsley for his upcoming Mazurka, a rite of passage that every Addams family member takes.
Morticia struggles to keep their daughter, Wednesday, from wanting to experience the world outside of the mansion after a balloon and confetti appear on their property, as the fog surrounding it begins to lift.

Elsewhere, reality TV host Margaux Needler, who is building a perfect planned 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.
Wednesday then meets Margaux's neglected daughter Parker and convinces 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 defends Parker and her twin friends Layla and Kayla from the school bully named Bethany and befriends them after she resurrects some dead frogs and commands them to attack Bethany.
Later on, the two discuss their frustrations and change their dressing habits – Parker becomes more gothic and Wednesday dresses more colorfully – to the shock of both of their mothers.
After an argument with Morticia, Wednesday decides to run away in secret and stay with Parker for a while, which Pugsley inadvertently tells Morticia.

Wednesday and Parker discover a secret room under Parker's house revealing that Margaux has planted hidden cameras in every house she designed in town and has been spreading rumors about the Addams family through social media, claiming that they are freaks.
Margaux catches the two and locks them in the attic, but Wednesday breaks them out.
Margaux rallies an angry mob to attack the mansion just as Cousin Itt and the entire Addams clan arrive for Pugsley's Mazurka.
Even Grandmama's sister Sloom will be attending to judge the event.

During the Mazurka, Pugsley fails miserably in front of the whole family, but Gomez reassures him that he is an Addams nonetheless.
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's trebuchet.
Wednesday and Parker join in and help everyone out of the wreckage safely with help of the living tree Ichabod.

As Margaux tries to take control once more, her treachery is revealed to the people.
They see that the Addams are not monsters, but a family, and Wednesday states that everyone is weird in their own unique way.
Margaux's agent, Glenn, carries a message from the network stating that her show is now cancelled because Parker was live streaming the whole thing with her phone.
As Fester comes up with a compromise to Margaux, Assimilation's civilians realize the error of their ways.

After they worked 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 completes his Mazurka.

The film ends with an animated recreation of the intro of the 1964 TV show.

Production

In 2010, after acquiring the rights to the Addams Family comics, the film originally began production at Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment as a stop-motion animated film directed by Tim Burton and produced by Chris Meledandri.
However, in 2013, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer announced it would produce an animated film based on the Addams Family comics, with Pamela Pettler writing the screenplay.
In June 2019, it was announced that Bron Creative would co-finance the film with MGM as part of a multi-picture co-financing agreement with the studio.

In October 2017, it was announced that the film would be directed and produced by Conrad Vernon. Gail Berman and Alex Schwartz would produce the film, and Matt Lieberman would make revisions to the screenplay.
The film would be animated by Cinesite Studios, with Tabitha Shick overseeing the film for MGM.
In December 2017, it was reported that Oscar Isaac was in talks to voice the role of Gomez Addams in the film.
In June 2018, Isaac was confirmed for the voice cast, alongside the additions of Charlize Theron, Allison Janney, Bette Midler, Chloë Grace Moretz, Finn Wolfhard and Nick Kroll.
In July 2018, Aimee Garcia joined the voice cast.
In August 2018, Elsie Fisher joined the voice cast.
In November 2018, Catherine O'Hara and Martin Short were added to the voice cast.
In August 2019, Snoop Dogg, Tituss Burgess, and Jenifer Lewis joined the voice cast, as Cousin Itt, Glenn, and Great Auntie Sloom, respectively.