The Addams Family
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The story begins as Gomez (Raúl Juliá) laments to his lawyer, Tully Alford, that he has not spoken to his brother Fester since a quarrel twenty-five years earlier. Morticia invites Tully and his wife to a séance in which they will attempt to contact the spirit of Fester, believed to have been lost in the Bermuda Triangle all this time. Returning to his office, Tully gets a surprise visit from his loan shark, Abigail Craven (Elizabeth Wilson), and her enforcer son Gordon (Christopher Lloyd), who have come to collect what he owes them. Gordon harasses Tully until he discovers the gold doubloons with which Gomez has paid the monthly expenses. Tully notices that Gordon appears similar to Fester, and proposes that Gordon pose as Fester to infiltrate the Addams mansion and find the vault where the family fortune is kept.
At the séance, the Addamses attempt to contact Fester's spirit, demanding he knock three times. As they ask, they hear three knocks at the door. They answer it to find Gordon (as Fester with amnesia) and Abigail (posing as a psychiatrist named Dr. Greta Pinder-Schloss). Gomez is initially overjoyed, but his elation quickly turns to suspicion as Fester fails to remember key events from their childhood. Fester attempts to break into the vault but is foiled by its treacherous booby traps: rusty chains that can pull intruders into the ceiling; a toxic underground lake; a large tank filled with piranha; and an exit chute which deposits intruders outside the mansion.
Despite Gomez's doubts, the brothers reconcile and throw a party for the extensive Addams clan on the night that Fester is to leave. When Wednesday is sent to check on Fester, she finds Gordon in the bathroom, with Abigail shaving his head. Wednesday thinks that he is an impostor and escapes to the family graveyard; Gordon pursues her, but soon has to get back to the party so that no one becomes suspicious.
In the meantime, Tully has discovered that Fester, being the older brother, is legally in control of the entire Addams estate. He enlists the aid of a cantankerous judge who lives next door to the mansion. As the party winds down, the family begins searching for the missing Wednesday — all but Fester, who volunteers to stay behind at the mansion in case she shows up. When she is found, the family returns and finds Tully behind the locked front gate, holding a restraining order that bars them from the property. Gomez takes the issue to court, but finds his angry neighbor presiding over the case. The judge rules in favor of Fester, who returns to the mansion and resumes his attempts to break into the vault, with help from Tully and Abigail.
Meanwhile, the Addamses attempt to adapt to their new living situation as Gomez moves his brood into a motel. To raise money for their family, Wednesday and Pugsley resort to selling lemonade in the parking lot, Thing works for Federal Express, and Lurch sells vacuum cleaners. However, they soon realize that they are ill-suited to live like the rest of society. Morticia then returns to the mansion to confront Gordon, but is captured by Tully and Abigail, who plan to torture her so that she will divulge the location of the vault. Thing sees this and returns to the motel, where he informs Gomez that his beloved wife is in trouble. Gomez rushes to her rescue, whereupon Abigail threatens to kill Morticia if he does not take Gordon to the vault.
Gordon, who has become sympathetic to the Addams family, takes matters into his own hands. The bookshelf concealing the passageway to the vault contains books which, when opened, project their contents into reality. Gordon threatens Tully and Abigail with a book named "Hurricane Irene" while Gomez and Morticia escape. The gale-force winds from the book hurl Tully and Abigail out a window and into two open graves, while Gordon is struck by lightning emitted by the pages.
Seven months later, all is well with the family as they are throwing a Halloween party. Fester has happily settled in, his memory fully restored by the lightning strike. He had vanished in the Bermuda Triangle and developed amnesia, and Abigail made him think he was her son so that he would assist in her criminal schemes. As everyone rushes out to the graveyard for a rousing game of "Wake the Dead," Gomez ponders what could possibly make life better. Morticia reveals she is pregnant, and the two share a passionate kiss.
