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HANDBOOK OF PRODUCTION INFORMATION PRESENTS A PRODUCTION A FILM ANjELlCA HUSTON JOAN CUSACK CAROL KANE Music by Visual Effects Supervisor ALAN MUNRO Edited by ARTHUR SCHMIDT and JIM MILLER Production Designer Director of Photography , A.S.C. Executive Producer DAVID NICKSAY I Based on the Characters created by Written by Produced by SCOTT RUDIN Directed by BARRY SONNENFELD "" Album available on Atlas Records, A PolyGram Company Read the Paperback from Pocket Books

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Morticia Addam s ...... Donald ...... STEVEN M . MARTIN

Go mez Adda ms ...... RAULjULIA Dex ter " ...... DOUGIAS BRIAN MARTIN

Fester Addams...... CHRI STOPHER LLOYD Lumpy ...... RYA N HOLIHAN

Debbie j elinsky ...... JOAN CUSACK Delivery Nurse ...... LOIS deBANZIE

W ednesday Addam s ...... CHRISTINA RICCI Forceps Nurse ...... VICKILY REYNOLDS

Gra nny ...... CAROL KANE Heather ......

Pugsley Addam s ...... Mrs. Montgomery ...... EYDE BYRDE

Pubert Addams ...... KAITLYN & KR ISTIN HOOPER Delivery Room Doctor ...... DAVID HYDE PI ERCE

Lurch ...... CA REL STR'UYCKEN Obnoxious Girl ...... ANDREANA WE INE R j oel Glicker ...... Host......

Thing ...... CHRISTOPHER HART ...... RI CK SCARRY

Margaret ...... DANA IVEY Flirting Woman ...... MONET MAZUR

Ga ry Granger ...... PETER MacNICOL Flirting M an ...... FRANCI S COADY

Bec ky Granger ...... Driver ...... IAN ABERC ROMBIE

Amand a Bu ckm an ...... MERCEDE S McNAB Moving Man ...... CHRIS ELLI S

Don Bu ckman ...... SAM McMURRAY Co nce tta...... CAM ILLE SAVIOLA

Ellen Buckman ...... HARRIET SANSOM HARR IS Passport Clerk ...... ZAC H PHIFER

Mrs. Glicker ...... JULIE HALSTON jorge ...... TO Y SHA LO UB

Mr. Glicker ...... BARRY SONNENFELD hw in ...... JEFFREY VAN HOOSE

Desk Se rgeant...... M ordecai ...... MICA H WINKLES PEC HT

CO ll sin It ...... JOHN FRANKLIN Whee lchair Camper ...... MATTHEW BEEBE

Co usin Aphasia ...... CHARLE S BUS CH Ya ng ...... MICA H HATA

CO ll sin Ophel ia ...... IAURA ESTERMAN Jamal...... j OEY WILCOTS

Fl ora Amor ...... MAUREE N SUE LEVIN Ca mper # I ...... JASON FI FE

Fauna Am or ...... DARLENE LEVIN Camper #2 ...... KARL DAVID·Dj ERF

Dementia ...... CARO L HANKI NS Young Debbie ...... HALEY PEEL "ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES" PRODUCTION INFORMATION IWI ove is in the air. And when that air surrounds the Addams Fami ly, events unfold in deli ghtfully unexpected ways. Take Gomez and Morticia: passionate, devoted, demented , and thrilled by their new arrival, baby Pubert, brandishing that sweet smil e, that fami li al pallor, that cute littl e moustache. The love bug has bitten Uncl e Feste r, an innocent if ever there was one, who has developed hi s own yearning for Debbie Jellin sky, the new nanny with her own ideas about Fester's future, none of which in volve hi s lo ngevity. Even young Wed nesday has met a kindred spirit in the most unlikely of locations - summer camp.

Welcome back to the irreverent world of Charles Ad dams's macabre chara cters as they return to the screen, fo ll owing their debut appearance in o ne of the major blockbuster films of 1991. Starring once aga in are Anj elica Hu ston, Raul Julia and Christopher Llo yd as Morticia, Gomez and , and co-starring are Chri stin a Ri cci and Ji mmy Workman as Wednesday and Pugsley. Th e fa mil y also incl udes Christopher Hart as Thing, Ca rel Struycken as Lurch the butle r, Dana Ivey as Ma rga ret, and Jo hn Franklin as Co usin Itt.

Joining the happy group in "Adda ms Fam il y Values" are Ca rol Kane as Granny, and Joan Cusack as Debbie, who isn't quite what she seems. Th e cast also includes Peter MacN icol, Chri stine Baranski and David Krumhol tz.

This lunacy is again unde r the auspices of the team that created "Th e Addams Family": directo r Ba rry So nnenfeld, an award-winning cinematographer who made his directorial debut with the first ''Ad dams,'' and proli fic produce r Scott Rudin , whose d ra matic thriller "The Firm" has grossed more than S 150 milli o n to date; and whose comedy hit "Sister Act" was one of the highest grossing film s of 1992. The screenplay is by Paul Rudnick, who, earli e r this year, e nj oyed consid erable accolades, including an , for hi s off-Broadway hit, "Jeffrey." David Nicksay is the executive producer of the presenta ti o n of rh e Motion Pi cture Gro up of Paramount Pictures.

"Addams Family Va lu es" filmmakers include director of photography Donald Peterman, A.S.C., a two-time Oscar nominee for "Fla shdance" and " IV: The Voyage Ho me." Academy Awa rd-winning producti o n designer Ken Adam, whose creative vision fueled the major James Bond film s and Stanley Kubri ck' s classics "Dr. Strangelove" and "Barry Lyndon," was enli sted to make tangibl e the atmosphere and spirit of Charles Addams's macabre drawings. Th e costumes, re fl ecting both rhe eccentricity and elegance of the Adda ms mili eu, were desig ned by Academy Awa rd- winner Theoni V. Aldredge, who won he r Oscar fo r "The Great Ga tsby." The co-editors are Academy Award winner Arthur Sch midt. who won hi s Oscar for "Who Framed Roger Rabbit." and Jim Mill er. who was co-editor with Dede All en on "The Addams Fam il y." Ma rc Shaiman ("Sleepless in Seattle." "Sister Act," "C ity Sli ckers") composes and conducts the score for the new "Ad dams Family" film.

ABOUT THE PRODUCTION irector Barry Son nenfeld ca ll s the Addamses "the ultimare functional family. The parents love the children. The mother and father love each othe r. They don't change their values based o n a wh im. Th ey're a perfect family."

"It's an interesting thing making a sequel to '... · Sonnenfeld says. "because there are certain characters who can change and grow and become different. An d there are other cha racters who the audience doesn't want to see change. For in stance. you wouldn't want to make a movie whe re Go mez and Morticia get a divorce - they have a perfect re lationship. Yo u wouldn't want Wednesday to be any mo re evil o r deadpan. or Pugsley to be any more or less goofy."

"At the beginning of the movie we find that Fester is very lo nely. He rea li zes that everyone's very happy - the fam il y has another baby - and Fester is lonely. He wants a mate."

Observes Sonnenfeld . "One of the things we've done wit h 'Ad dams Family Va lu es' is to have more of a story than in 'The Addams Family,' and in troduce new characters. So we have an opportunistic nanny. baby Pubert. and Joel Glicke r. Wednesday's first boyfri end."

Screenwriter Paul Rudnick re li shes the delicious mischief of the Addams psyche. "The best t hing about w ri ting for the Adda ms Family is that you don't have to be wholesome," says Rudnick. who displays an obvious playful glee about the opportunity to portray the happy prankishness and twisted humor of the Addams clan. Rudnick worked extensively on the first Adda ms film. and ''Addams Family Va lu es" is his origin al screenplay.

Co mments executive producer David Nicksay. "As you get to know them. you realize that the Addamses have fantastic traditions which they pass o n to each other. They love each other ve ry much. They che ri sh each othe r's freedom to be in dividual. quirky. however they want to be, and so they have a reall y great working fam il y unit."

Says RaulJulia, "I think the appeal of the Addams Fam il y is that they are ve ry eccentric and naughty. And we all have in ourselves the desire to be naughty once in a while."

Anj e li ra Hu ston adds, '" think within all of us there is a search for things that are a little off-center and offbeat. 'think their appeal is the fa ct that they accept what is to the normal world unacceptable- in fact they embrace what is unacceptable-and that they have such a wonderful understanding of each other. Th ey have wonderful fam il y val ues. They are devoted to each other."

Huston describes the re lationship between Morticia and Go mez as "extremely loving and ve ry passionate, If anything, , think their passion deepens with the years. "

Hu ston has done some th in king about the nature of her Adda ms alter ego. "There are certain questions about Morticia," she smil es, "such as 'Does Morticia wake up and put that outfit on?' My fee ling about her always was that thi s is how she wakes up in the morning. There is a question as to whether Morticia has legs."

Raul Ju li a sees Gomez as a very romantic cha racte r. "He's very much in love with Morticia. And he's like a swashbuckl ing, romantic, crazy man. When Gomez gets upset, it's like a volca no. He also has the spirit of a child, whi ch he has never lost. He can be ve ry naive, but things always turn o ut fin e fo r him somehow."

The chemistry between Go mez and Morticia is an extensio n of the friendship between Raul Julia and Anjel ica Hu ston. "By the time we started filming (the fir st 'Addams'), we were good frie nds," he remembers. Thi s closeness was essential when it came time to fi lm the elaborate tango sequence in "Addams Fa mily Val ues." The setting for their dance is a mossy French restaurant where Gomez and Morticia have taken Fester and Debbie to di nner.

"The tango is such a unique way of expressi ng love and romance," observes Julia, who o nce took tango lessons with hi s wife in Argentina. Several rehearsa ls with choreographer Peter Anastos led to the success of the sequence. "Peter was very open to suggestio ns," says Julia. "Remember, this is not a serious Argentinean tango - it's an Addams Family tango."

Remembers Huston, "We spent a lot of t im e rehearsing and pe rfecting our tango. It was the first tim e I've been in volved in dance on film , and it required a lot of concentration, but it was fun."

Ca rel Struycken, t he seven-feet-tall, Dutch-born actor who plays the quietly intimidating butle r Lurch, sees hi s character as the protector of the family: "He's there when he needs to be and he knows in advance when things are going to go awry." It is Lu rch who looks after the Addams Famil y mansion, which Stru ycken reminds is "surrounded by acres and acres of g raveyard, with thousands of tombstones. I think one of the family's regular pastimes is digging up old bones. And I think long, long ago, when they needed a fresh servant, they went o ut and dug up some bones and I think Lurch is really a compilatio n of deceased Addams Family relatives. He's really, literally, a part of the family."

Carol Ka ne, who plays Granny, comments about her role, "S he is Morticia's mother and there is some talk about the fa ct that she may also be Go mez's and Fester's mothe r."

The second Addams Fa mil y motion picture finds with he r first boyfriend. Chri stina Ricci, who turned 13 during the filming of "Addams Fam il y Values," has a very clear understanding of he r character: "Wednesday is very mature. She is very secure in her house and with her family, and any new person makes her very suspicious. As she grows up, she starts to look more and mo re like Morticia. She wants to be just li ke her mother. "

When Debbie Jellinsky, baby Pubert's new nanny, comes to work for the famil y, Wed nesday is immediately wa ry of her intentio ns and soon observes Debbie going through the fa mil y's financial ledgers.

Exp lains David Nicksay, "Debbie is a bl ack widow - a seri al murderess, sli ghtly 'round the bend, but 'round t he bend in the sense that she's a real confo rmi st to what we ca ll 'traditio nal' Ame ri ca n val ues: upwa rdl y mobile, consumer o ri ented. She comes into this famil y w ith the inte ntion of tearing it apart, and she finds the one famil y in the wo rld she can't destroy. Try as she does, they are not at al l what she expects."

The role of Debbie was the g reat casting chall enge of "Addams Fa mil y Va lues." Says Nicksay. "joan Cusack brings a kind of unpred ictability to the role that is wonderful. What's ve ry important in a movie like this, is that the villa in be great. And like '' had a great vill ain in j ack Nicholson as the joker, joan Cu sack adds the same kin d of energy to the story."

In order to manipul ate Uncle Fester and get her way, De bbie rea li zes that she must get Wednesday and Pugsley o ut of the house. She convinces Mo rticia and Comez to send them to summer ca mp.

"Fester w ri tes to Wed nesday and Pugsley at Camp Chippewa, telling them he can never see them again ," says j immy Workman. "They know something's wrong and try to get out of the camp any way they can, but the other ca mpers always seem to catch them."

Camp Ch ippewa is the perfect, rustic summer get-away fo r the offspring of class-conscious yuppies - and the last place in the world that Wednesday and Pugsley would choose to be. Iro nically, it is he re that Wednesday unexpectedly meets a kin dred spi rit and feels the bloom of first ro mance. That boy is j oel Clicker (Da vid Kr umholtz), who can't fi nd anything to like about summer camp either.

"We meet joel at summer ca mp, and it seems he's been over-coddled by his mother and he's all ergic to everything," says Ricci. "He's a total hypochondriac."

'Joel is basica ll y me as a kid," says director Son nenfe ld. "He doesn't li ke bugs, doesn't li ke the outdoors, woul d rather be read ing." So nnenfeld appears as joel's father in the movie -"because I was too old to play joel," he explains.

Actor Dav id Krumholtz says, 'Joel likes the way Wed nesday is not afraid to talk, because he's not very o utgoing. He's ve ry shy and nervo us, and she's not at all. He loves the weird ness of Wed nesday's fa mily, and I think he fits right in and he's glad he does. He fin ds Wednesday beautiful. And they both think the idea of green trees and a ni ce, beaut iful lake is their ve rsion of hell."

ADDAMS FAMILY PRODUCTION VALUES n their return visit to the Addams Mansio n, film goers who deli ghted in the Addams'distin ctive approach to in teri or II desig n and fash ion will be treated to many new di scoveries. So nnenfe ld and Rud in agreed that the fa mil y mansio n of the second Addams adventure should be a home much like the o ne Charles Addams d rew in his cartoons. "I sa id that I couldn't do much better than to try and bring the Addams ca rtoons to life, because I think this man was a genius," says production designer Ken Adam . "I made quite sure that I would go back to the Addams cartoons with a touch of Ken Adam thrown in."

Wherever possible Ada m emul ated Addams: the small gal lery running on top of Gomez's study, the bed in Wednesday's bedroom. the kitchen, the attic. the wallpaper, the out-of-plumb walls. "I think in every room in the house there are elements of Charle s Addams,"' the production designer says. In Pubert's nursery, however. there was no Addams prototype. "I tried to go back to the Charles Addams style of drawing certain animals - grotesque ones, to be sure.

"At Warner Bros., we built the exterior facade of the house with the conservatory, dining room and entry hall,"' recall s Ada m. "At CBS Studio Ce nter we built the cemetery with the conservatory and dining room. which comprised the rear and side of the house. And at Paramount there is the ground or first floor of the house on Stage 20, also with the conservatory wall. and the second floor of the house on Stage 3 1. So we ended up building the conservatory, or parts of it , on three different stages.

"We had to pull out all the stops, all the things I have learned in my 46 years of experience," Adam says. "We were building on seven soundstages at one time. Even on some of the gigantic James Bond pictures I did, I have never built on that many stages at the same time." These stages were used for t he va ri ous in teri ors of the Addams house, Debbie and Fester's Hawaiian honeymoon suite, and the French restaurant grotto.

For the cemetery set, Ada m ca me up with the idea of building part of it in forced perspective. "We built it in composite with part of the house," he says. One of the new additions to the house is the Conservatory, which appears in a very primitive way in some of the Adda ms cartoons -"looking like a big bird cage." he says.

Several locations around the area serve to take the Addamses out of their crumbling mansion. Among them are East L.A."s Linda Vista Hospital, the Long Beach Airport Terminal, and private homes in Pasadena and Palos Verdes.

Californ ia's Sequoia National Forest provided a picturesque summer campsite- and a new setting for torture - for the Addams child ren, Wednesday and Pugsley. Located 50 miles east of the San Joaquin Valley city of Fresno, and home to fi ve YMCA ca mpsi tes, Sequoia Lake provided the production company with two distinct locales. The arrival of the ca mpe rs took place at Ca mp Sequoia, and the pageant sequence was set across the lake at Camp Tulequoia.

An objective of costume designer Theo ni V. Aldredge was to be faithful to the Addams' flair for the dramatic in their apparel while accentuating their penchant fo r t he romantic. Working with Ken Adam, Aldredge intensified the wardrobe's look and gave it a bit more color­ except in t he case of Morticia, who always dresses in black. In "Ad dams Fa mily Val ues," however, Morticia's black dresses are very di stincti ve and elaborate creations.

The indistinct time pe riod also gave Ald redge room to be creative, combining apparel from many different eras. The Adclams Family made their debut in the 1930s, so Aldredge dressed Gomez in '30s-era suits. "Wednesday, Pugsley and Granny stay ve ry much like the original Addams drawings, but with everyone else we've gone every which way ... Granny was a lot of fun because we put everything on her. If you look at close-ups of her, she's got dead birds in her hair and feathers. Ca rol Kan e enjoyed adding things, too. 1 think Gra nny ca rri es her wealth with her so that, just in case something happens, God forbid she doesn't have it on."

The film presented one ve ry un-Addams-i sh character for Aldredge to clothe: Debbie Jellinsky, the nanny with the horrible secret. She wears pastels - an Ad dams faux pas of the hi ghest ord er. "Debbie borders on reall y tacky taste," says the designer. "We tried to put in a little bad taste, but she ca n get away with it because she's very pretty."

Aldredge says that Joan Cusack - the actress wearing the dreaded pinks and lavenders and beiges - was a de li ght: "She has a great sense of humor and everything I do becomes that much more amplifi ed." It's Debbie who gets Fester into sweaters. A suburban Addams is a sight to behold.

In addition to the contributions of cast members and design and wardrobe personnel to the Addams aura, the film also depends on visual effects to bring some of the stranger aspects of the Addams milieu to life. Visual effects supervisor Alan Munro se rved in that same capacity on "The Addams Family."

"We needed to top everything we'd already done," says Munro. Just in terms of Thing, Mu nro and his team utilized 15 different puppets that do everything from run , pull wagons, drive a car, massage heads, twitch, twitter, and vibrate. Th en there are a huge number of optical effects required in vo lvin g Christopher Hart and hi s prosthetics. The most compli cated of Thing's effects is a skating sequence, with Thing doing acrobatics on a roller skate. "We d id that with Ch ri s Hart and worked out the mechanics of it as we went alo ng, shooting kooky angles," remembers Munro. "It's the ultimate skateboard sequence with a detached hand."

Christopher Hart remembers the origin al task of working Ollt the 'character' of Thing: "Thing had to have hi s own weig ht as a cha racter, so I had to make sure that my wrist was at a certain angle over my hand so that whe n my body was taking off it would look correct. And of course I had to consider the performance aspects - what his personality was like and how he moved. I see Thing as a lovable little character. He's like a little puppy dog, in that he likes to play practical jokes. He's a kid at heart, but he's also obviously ve ry intelli gent and cares about his fami ly - he's willing to put hi s life in danger to save them."

"The great thing about this fam il y is they love each other not despite their faults, but because of the m," says Scott Rudin . "What better way is there to feel good about ourselves and ou r sho rtcomings than by looking at a fam il y that has taken those things that the rest of the world defi nes as fa il ures and in stead raises them up and puts them on a pedestal? They admire t hose peccadill oes - these are the Addams famil y va lues they revere and protect."

ABOUT CHARLES ADDAMS harl es Adda ms's eccentric ca rtoons first appeared in magazin e in 1932, when he waS 2 1 years old. The magazin e II was to be his publi shing home for more than 50 years, even during Wo rld War 11 whil e he was also doing animatio n for the Signal Corps Photographic Ce nte r in . The Addams Family ran from 1935 thro ugh 1964, with some 1300 cartoons and watercolors, incl ud ing 66 New Yorker covers, making up the Addams oeuvre. When the TV show made its debut in September, 1964, The New Yorker asked that cha racters of the Fami ly no lo nger appear in the magazin e, and they did not reappear until 1988, shortly before Addams died.

Addams grew up in Westfield, , the son of a naval architect. Surrounded by Victorian mansio ns and archaic g raveyards, hi s im agination leaned early toward the bizarre. He studied art at Co lgate University, then at the Uni versity of Pennsylva ni a, and fin a lly at the Grand Ce ntral School of Art in New Yo rk . His unique variations o n domestic life and middle-class va lu es shattered all common ex pectatio ns.

In memorial of Addams, Lady Co lyton has endowed in perpetuity the Charles Addams Memorial Prize at the Un iversity of Pennsylva ni a. This S 10,000 grant, award ed an nually at commencement, is presented to the o utstanding graduate art student, Lady Colyton's commencement address captures the unique elements of Addams's work:

"Charles Addams made a giant contribution to t he world of art. It was not only his superb craftsmanship and his genius in the realm of humor whi ch was unique and wonderful ; but more than that, hi s work was a social commentary o n an era: the blending of the sini ster framework of in nocent and childlike fantasies of our inner selves with the commo nplace in cidents of everyday li fe, thus investing them with total absurdity. It has been like ned to a surreal turnabout of a typical American fam il y. His gift to posterity was vast. He left a graphi c style and a comic genre that will always bear hi s name."

ABOUT THE CAST If41 NJELICA HUSTON (Morticia) received a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actress in a Co medy for "The Addams Family." She won an Academy Awa rd fo r her performance in "P ri zzi's Ho no r," which was directed by her father, t he late John Huston. She was also Oscar­ nominated for "The Grifters" and "Enemies, A Love Story." "The Grifters" also earn ed her a Best Act ress Award from the National Society of Film Critics and an Independent Spirit Awa rd (wh ich also honored her work in "The Witches"). She also won an Independent Spi rit Awa rd for "The Dead."

Her other films include " Murder Mystery," "Crimes and Misdemeanors," "M r. North," "A Handful of Dust," "Gardens of Stone," "The Last Tycoon," "The Postman Always Rings Twice," "Swashbuckler," and "This is Spinal Tap," She was Emmy­ nominated for her role in the much honored CBS mini-series "Lonesome Dove," and co-starred with in "Captain EO," the 3- D film attraction at Disneyland which was produced by George Lucas and directed by . He r most recent television appearance was in the much­ lauded ABC mi ni-series "Family Pictures." On stage, Huston starred in the Los Angeles production of "Tamara," for which she rece ived a 1985 Distinguished Performance Awa rd fro m Drama-' Logue.

Born in Californi a and raised in Irela nd , England and France, Huston is part of the third ge neration of a renowned and honored cinema fam ily. Her grandfather was actor Walter Hu ston and her father, John Huston, was one of the industry's most distinguished writer-actor-directors.

RAUL JULIA (Gomez) won the National Board of Review's Best Actor Award and a Go ld en Globe nomination for hi s performance opposite in "Kiss of the Spider Woman." Hi s films include "The Addams Family," "Havana ," "P resumed Innocent," "Teq uila Sunrise," "Romero," "Moon Over Parador," "The Penitent," "Trad ing Hearts," "The Morning After," "Tempest," "The Escape Artist," "One From The Heart," and "The Pla gue." Julia is also a four-time Tony nominee for his performances on Broadway in "," "," "Where's Charley?" and "Two Gentlemen of Ve rona." His other Broadway appearances include "," "Design Fo r Living," "," and "Dra cul a."

Born and raised in Pu erto Rico,Julia left there in 1964 to pursue an acting ca reer in New York. He mad e his New York debut in "Life Is a Dream," and appeared off-Broadway for the next two yea rs. He then appeared in "," the first of more than a dozen New York Shakespeare Festiva l productions in whi ch he ha s performed during the last 20 years. In the spring of 1992, he toured the U.S. and appeared on Broadway in a revival of "."

CHRISTOPHER LLOYD (Fester) starred as Dr. Emmett Brown in the "Back to t he Future" trilogy, and has among hi s many film cred its "The Addams Family," "Who Framed Ro ge r Rabbit," "E ight Men Out," "Track 29," "The Dream Team," "Clu e," "Star Trek II : The Search for Spo ck," "To Be or Not to Be," "Mr. Mom," "The Postman Always Rin gs Twi ce," "The Onion Field," "The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai," "National Lampoon Goes to the Movies," "The Lone Ranger," "The Lady in Red," "Goin' So uth," and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," which was hi s feature film debut. His most recent film role was Switchblade Sa m in "Dennis the Menace."

Lloyd has two for his portraya l ofJim Ignatowski in the comedy series "Taxi." In 1992 he won hi s third Emmy award, as Best Actor in a Drama Se ri es, for hi s guest appearance in the Disney se ri es "Avonl ea." Other recent television work includes the TNT film "T Bone & Weasel" with Gregory Hines, and HBO's "Dead Ahead: Th e Exxon Valdez Di saster."

Lloyd won a Dra ma Desk Award in 1973 for hi s off-Broadway performance in "Kaspar." His other stage productions include "Happy End" on Broadway and such New York Shakespeare Festival and off-B roadway productio ns as "Macbeth," "The Sea Gull, " "In The Boom Boom Room," and "Total Eclipse."

JOAN CUSACK (Debbie) was no minated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for "" She recently co-starred with in "Hero" and with in "Toys." Her other film credits include "Men Don't Leave," "My Blu e Heaven," "Say Anythin g," "Marri ed to the Mob," "Stars and Bars," "B roadcast News," "The Allnig hter," "S ixteen Candles," "Grandview USA," and "Class." She made her fi lm debut in 1980 in "My Bodyguard."

Born in Evanston, Illi nois, Cusack studi ed acting at the Piven Theatre Workshop there. Whil e at the Uni versity of Wisconsin in Madison, she joined The Ark, a local improvisational comedy group. During the 1985-86 season, she was a regular on "." Her stage appearances include "Road ," "Brill ia nt Traces" and "Cymbeline."

CAROL KANE (G ran ny) received a Best Actress Academy Awa rd nomination for "Hester Street" and won two Emmy award s for her role as Simka Gravas on the seri es "Tax i. " She also starred in the NBC series "A me ri can Dreamer" and "All is Forgiven."

Kane's films include "In The So up," "Ted & Ve nus," '~oe vs. the Volcano," "Flashback," "My Blue Heaven," "The Lemon Siste rs," "Scrooged," "The Princess Bride," "lshtar," "Jumpin' Jack Fla sh," "Transylvan ia 6-5000," "Racing With the Moon," "Pandemo nium ," "When A Stranger Calls," "Th e Mafu Cage," "The World's Greatest Lover," "A nnie Hall," "Harry and Walter Go to New York," "Dog Day Aftern oon," and "The Last DetaiL" Ka ne made her film debut in 1971 in "Carnal Knowledge.

Earl ier th is yea r Ka ne starred in the Showtim e telefilm "When A Stranger Ca ll s Back." Born in Cleveland, she began her professional acting career touring at the age of 14. Her stage appearances in clude "The Prime of Miss jean Brodie," "," "The Effect of Gamma Ra ys on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds," "Are You Now or Have Yo u Ever Been?," "Arturo Ui," "The Enchanted," "Macbeth," "Tales of t he Vienna Woods," and "Frankie and johnny in the Claire de Lune."

CHRISTINA RICCI (Wednesday) co-starred in "The Addams Family" after making her professional acti ng debut in "Mermaids" as the youngest daughter of the character played by Cher. She also appeared in "Cemetery Club" and "The Hard Way,"

He r television credits include the NBC pilot "Working It Out" with jane Curtin, the ABC series "Help," and "Saturday Night Li ve." Christina turned J3 during the first week of filming "Addams Family Va lues."

Chri stina was born in Santa Monica and is currently living in Montclair, New j ersey, where her performance, at age e ig ht, in the Edgemont Elementary School's Christmas play caught the attention of the local theater critic. who suggested to Christina's parents she should consider an acting career.

JIMMY WORKMAN (P ugsley Addams) made hi s professional acting debut in "The Addams Fami[y." Bo rn in Fairfax, Virginia, he moved to New York at age seven and attended judge Charles j. Vallone School in Astoria. His most recent film appearance was in Arnold Schwarzenegger's directorial debut, "Christmas in Connecticut."

CAREL STRUYCKEN (L urch) first played Lurch in the first "Addams" fi[m and has also appeared in such movies as "The Witches of Eastwick," "Servants ofTwi[ight" and "The Night Raiders." He made his first fi[m appearance in "Sergeant Pepper's Lone[y Heart's Club Band" after being spotted by a casting director at the legendary intersection of Hollywood and Vin e.

Hi s television work includes " ," HBO 's "Framed," George Lucas's "Ewoks - The Batt[e for Endor," and the recent television version of'Journey to the Center of the Earth," as well as episodes of "Star Trek: The Next Generation," "Hunter" and "St. E[sewhere." Born in Holland, Struycken moved at age fo ur with hi s parents to the Caribbean island of Curacao. He returned 12 years later to Holland, where he later graduated from the directing program at the film school in Amsterdam. He moved to Los Angeles to study at the American Fi lm Institute, colla borating on several shon films ,md projects with writer-director Rene Daalder.

DANA IVEY originated the role of Margaret in the first "Addams" film. Ivey has appeared in such movies as "Sleepless in Seattle," "Home Alone 2," "The Adve ntures of Huckleberry Finn," "Gu ilty as Sin," "Postcards From The Edge," "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," "Explorers," "Another Woman," "Heartburn," and "The Color Pu rpl e."

Her recent stage appearances include the Roundabout Theater production of "," John Patrick Shanl ey's "Beggars in the House of Plenty" at the Manhattan Theatre Club, and the Los Angeles production of Terrance McNally's "It's Only a Play."

Ivey's television appearances include a co-starring role in the series "Easy Street" and guest-star appearances in "B.L. Strycker," "A ll My Children" and "Search For Tomorrow." She recently co-starred in the NBC telefilm "A Child Lost Forever."

Ivey is a To ny Awa rd nominee for "Sunday in the Park With George" and "," and an Obie winner for "Driving Miss Daisy" and "Quartennaine's Terms," the latter also earning her the Cla re nce Derwent Award. Her other stage appearances include the Public Theatre/Kennedy Center staging of "Wenceslas Square" and New York Shakespeare Festival presentations of "Macbeth" and "."

CHRISTOPHER HART (Thi ng) is an award-winning magician who was inducted into the famous Magic Castle in Los Angeles at age 17. In 1992 he was honored by the Academy of Magical Arts as Magician of the Year and in 1993 was nominated again fo r the award. In 1987 he won the New York Magic Symposium's Go ld Cup and has been a finalist for two consecutive years in the Magic Entertainer of the Year competition.

During the filming of "The Addams Family," Hart took a break and traveled to La s Vegas to participate in the prestigious Desert Magic co mpetition, where he won the Silve r Lion's Head Award. After fini sh ing the fi lm, Hart again went on the ro ad, to japan , where he spent two months at a theater in Osaka • performing w ith top japanese co medians; to Denmark, where he pe rformed in the Tropicana Hotel's "Follies Bergere" at a cas ino in Copenhage n; to Spain, where he appeared on a television show in ; to Ge rm any, where he appeared on one of the top-rated television shows in Mun ich; and finally, back to j apa n, where he was the featured performer in an international magic show.

JOHN FRANKLIN fi rs t pl ayed Cous in Itt in the first "Addams" film and sta rred in "Children of the Co rn" with Linda Hamilton and Peter Horton. Hi s te levision appeara nces include episodes of " Hi ghway to Heaven" and "Beauty and the Beast. "

Born in Worth, , Frankl in bega n acting in high school and appea red in co mmunity theater productions, winning awards for two one-act plays he created with his cousin and writing parmer, Tim Sulka. A graduate of the University of Illinois drama department, Fra nklin moved to Los Ange les after working with j ane Fo nda in "The Dollmaker." Hi s stage appea rances include th e ro le of the Artful Dodger in Miami and Seattle productions of "Oliver!"

PETER MacNICOL (Gary Gra nger) ha s appea red in such films as "Housesitter," "Ghostbu ste rs II," "Heat," "Hard Promises," and "Sophie's Cho ice."

On television MacN icol was a regular on the se ries "The Powers That Be ," gues t-starred in "The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd," and starred in HBO's "By the Dawn's Ea rl y Light."

Hi s stage appea rances in cl ude Broadway productions of "The Nerd" and "Crim es of the Heart"; New York Shakes pea re Festival productions of " Rom eo and j uliet," "Richard II" and ""; Public Th eatre productions of "Ru m and Coke" and "Fo un d a Pea nut"; a Ro un dabout Thea tre production of "Black Co medy"; and Guthri e Th eatre productions of "A Marriage," "A Christmas Caro l" and "Execution of justice."

CHRISTINE BARANSKI (Becky Gra nge r) has appeared in such films as "Life With Mikey," "The Night We Neve r Met," "Reversal of Fortun e," "The Pi ck-Up Artist," "Lega l Eagles," "9 Weeks," "Cracke rs," and " Lovesick."

Baran sk i is a two-time Tony winner fo r Ne il Simon's " Rum ors" and Tom Stoppard's "The Real Thing," for which she also wo n a Drama Desk Awa rd. She has also appeared on Broadway in "Nick and Nora," "Hurlyburly" and "The House of Blue Leaves." Her off-B roadway work includes "Lip s Together, Teeth Apart," "Sunday in the Park With Geo rge," and "A Midsummer Night's Dream," for which she won an Ob ie. DAVID KRUMHOLTZ Uoel Glicker) made hi s motion picture debutin the role of Barry Corman, the obnoxious cereal commercial actor in "Life With Mikey" starring Michael J. Fox. The 15-year-old actor also co-stars in the Fox series "Monty." Krumho ltz's first professional acting job was on the Broadway stage in Feb ruary 1992 when he co-starred with Judd Hirsch in "Co nversations With My Father." Hi s junior high drama teacher, impressed by Krumholtz's seven lines in the school's production of "Bye, Bye Birdi e," had seen a newspaper ad for an open call for the "Conversations" ro le and alerted his mother. Krum holtz was selected from a group of 200 professional actors and 300 amateurs for the role and appeared in the play for six months.

Baby Pubert is played by KAITLYN and KRISTIN HOOPER, twin girls who are making their film debuts. Appearing in cameo roles in "Addams Family Va lues" are: NATHAN LANE (The Police Sergeant), who appeared earlier this year in the Broadway production "Guys and Do ll s" and the film "Life With Mikey," and who is a Best Actor Drama Desk Awa rd -winner for the off-Broadway production "The Lisbon Traviata"; CHARLES BUSCH (Cous in Aphasia DuBarry Addams), who is the creator of the plays "Vamp ire Lesbians of Sod om" and "Psycho Beach Party"; DAV ID PIERCE (De li very Roo m Doctor), who appeared in "The Fisher King" and the No rman Lear televis ion series "The Powers That Be"; JULIE HALSTON, (Mrs . Gli cker) who has appeared in such films as "Search ing for Bobby Fischer" and "Manhattan Mu rder Mystery"; TONY SHALOUB, Uorge the Sai lor) who also appears in "Searching for Bobby Fischer" and was nominated for for his work in "Co nve rsations With My Father" and the revival of "The Odd Couple"; HARRIET HARRIS (E ll en Buckman), whose New York stage appearances include Paul Rudnick's "Jeffrey"; and SAM McMU RRAY (Don Buckman), who has appeared in such films as "L.A . Story" and "Rais ing Arizona." ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS irector BARRY SONNENFELD is an award -winning cin ematographer IJ] who made hi s motion picture directoria l debut with "The Addams Fa mil y." Hi s second fil m is the comedy "For Love or Money"starring Michael j . Fox.

Born and raised in Manhattan's Washington He ights, So nnenfeld g raduated from the NYU Graduate Film School in 1979, and then bought a 16mm came ra and began to shoot documentaries. Hi s first effo rt , "In Our Wate r, " was no minated for an Academy Awa rd . Hi s first feature as a ci ne matographe r was the Coen Brothers' "Bl ood Simple ." He continued his associatio n wit h the Coens o n "Raising Ari zona" and "Miller's Crossing." For Ro b Re in er. Sonnenfeld shot "When Harry Met Sa ll y" and "Misery." Hi s other work as director of pho tography includes film s of fir st-time di rectors Penny Ma rsha ll o n "Big," Danny DeVito o n "Th row Mo mma Fro m the Tra in ," and Phil joanou o n "Three O'Clock Hig h." He received an Emmy fo r hi s ci nematography fo r the 1985 ABC special, "Out of Ste p," and has di rected nume ro us commercials, two of which, "Dog," fo r Nike, and "Tennis Ball s," fo r Reebok, have won Cli o Awa rds.

Producer SCOTT RUDIN 'S film s include "Sea rching fo r Bobby Fi sche r," "The Finn," "S ister Act," and "Th e Ad dams Famil y" as well as, amo ng others, "Li ttle Man Tate," "Re gard ing Henry," "Pacific He ights," "Fl atliners," "j ennife r Eight," " Li fe With Mi key, " "M rs. Soffel," and the Emmy and Aca demy Award -winning docume ntary "He Makes Me Feel Like Dancing."

Curre ntly in producti o n fo r Rudin is the sequel to "S iste r Ac t." Among hi s films fo r nex t year are "Nobody's Fool," starring Pa ul Newman, written and to be directed by Robert Bento n; "The Defective Detecti ve," to be directed by Terry Gilli am; a film of the acclaimed off-Broadway hit "Marvin's Ro o m"; and a film of the Pulitzer Prize­ winning novel "A Confederacy of Dunces," to be directed by Steven Sode rbergh and "IQ" to be di rected by Fred Sche pi si.

Rudin also co-produced, with Stuart Ostrow and jujamcyn Theatres, the Broadway production of David Henry Hwang's "Face Val ue," directed by Jerry Za ks. He is partnered with Jujamcyn Th eatres to develop and produce for t he theatre. He and -based producer Robert Fox are currently preparing Arthur Laurents' play "Jolson Sings Aga in" to be directed by Dan Sullivan. He is also partnered with Jujamcyn Theatres to produce a Broadway revival of "A Funny Thing Happened On Th e Way To The Forum" to be directed by Jerry Zaks.

Rud in is a native New Yo rker who began hi s career as an assistant to Broadway producers before becoming a casting director fo r stage productions and feature film s. includ ing such Broadway shows as "Annie," produced by Mi ke ichols. and "Pippin" for Stuart Ostrow and Bob Fosse. After moving to Los Angeles in 1980, Rudin co-produced "M rs. Soffel," and executive produced the Em my and Academy Award-win ning documentary "He Makes Me Feel Lik e Dancin g," as well as the multi-E mmy Award no minated min iseries "Littl e Gloria ... Happy at Last."

Rudin then spent fo ur years as an executive with Twentieth Ce ntury Fox, serving as President of Production during the last two years. Amo ng the fi lms made during his tenure we re "Alie ns," "Wa ll Street," "Big," "D ie Hard," "Broadcast News," "Workin g Girl ," "Rai sing Arizona," and "The Fl y."

Executive producer DAVID NICKSAY served in the same capacity on "White Sands" and "Ro bin Hood: Prince of Thi eves." Hi s fi lms al so incl ude "Stay Tuned" and "Freejack." He was co-executive producer o n "Pacifi c Heights" and "Young Gu ns II "; produced "Lucas"; and co-produced "Mrs. Soffel. " Nicksay's televi sio n credi ts as a producer include the ABC series "Ca ll to Glo ry" and the NBC mini seri es "Littl e Gloria ... Happy at Last." Nicksay jo in ed Paramount in 1986 as vice- presid ent of production and the fo ll owing yea r became seni o r v. p. of production. In 1989 he resig ned to become presid ent of Morgan Creek.

New York-based screenwriter PAUL RUDNI CK contributed to the fina l shooting script of the fi rst "Addams Fam il y" fi lm , wrote the original versio n of the screenpl ay for "Sister Act," and is currently enjoying the success of hi s Obie Award-winning runaway hit off-Bro adway play, 'Jeffrey, " whi ch o pened in January, 1993 at the WPA Theater and then in March moved to the larger Minetta Lane Theate r. Rece ntly, a Los Angeles company of 'Jeffrey" began performances at the Westwood Playhouse and the play will soon open in Sa n Franc isco.

A Yale graduate, Rudnick is the author of the novels Social Disease and I'll Take It, and t he plays "I Hate Haml et" and "Poor Li ttle Lambs." His magazine work includes articles for Premiere, Spy and Interview.

Di rector of photography DON PETERMAN received Aca demy Awa rd nominations for "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" and "." His other films in cl ude "Point Break, " "S he's Out of Control," "S he's Having a Baby," "Planes, Trai ns and Automobiles," "G ung Ho," "American Flye rs," "Cocoon," "Best Defense," "Splash," "Kiss Me Goodbye ," "Rich and Famous," and "Mr. Saturday Night."

Peterman was born in Los Angeles and began his career in te levis ion, shooting national co mm ercials and the seri es "The Night Sta lker." He made hi s motion picture debut with "When A Stranger Ca lls."

Production designer KEN ADAM won an Academy Award in 1975 for his work on Sta nley Kubrick's "Ba rry Lyndo n." He was Oscar- nominated first in 1956 for "Around the Wo rl d in 80 Days" and aga in in 1977 for "The Spy Who Loved Me." Adam rece ived awards from the British Academy of Film and Te levision Arts fo r "Dr. Stra nge love" and "The Ipcress File."

His other fil ms includ e "U ndercover Blues," "The Doctor," "The Fres hman. " "Com pany Business," "Dead Ba ng," "Crim es of the Hea rt," "King David," "Agnes of God," "Pen nies Fro m Heave n," "Moonraker," "Th e Seven Perce nt So lution," "The Last of Sheila," "Sleuth," "Diamonds are Forever," "Th e Owl and the Pussycat," "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," "Ch itty Chitty Ba ng Bang," "Fun era l in Berl in ," "You On ly Live Twice," "Thunderball," "Go ldfinger," and "Dr. No."

Adam was born in Berlin and ed ucated at Lond on Unive rsity, where he studied architecture. He entered the fi lm in dustry as a draughts man in 1947.

THEONI V. ALDREDGE (Costume Designer) received an Acade my Awa rd and a British Aca demy of Film and Television Arts Awa rd for "The Grea t Gatsby." Her des igns fo r motion pi ctures, television, opera and ballet have also brought her many other honors, in cl uding three Tonys, Drama Desks and Va ri ety Dra ma Critics' awards. Her other films include "Stanley and Iri s," "We're No Angels," "Moonstruck," "Racing With The Moon," "G hostbusters," "Monsignor," "Annie," "Rich and Famous," "The Rose," "The Champ," "The Cheap Detective," "The ," "Semi-Tough," "Network," "The Fu ry," "I Never Sang For My Father," and "No Way to Treat a Lady," She began her film caree r with Francis Coppola's "You're a Big Boy Now,"

Ald redge won Tonys for "La Cage Aux Folies," "Ba rnum" and "Annie:' among a total of II nom in ations, Her other Broadway credits include "The Secret Ga rd en," "The Threepenny Opera," "Two Gentlemen of Vero na," "42nd Street," "Dreamgirls," "A Cho ru s Lin e," and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

A native of Salonika, Greece, she studied at the Good man Theatre School in , and began her career with New York theater productions,

Editor ARTHUR SCHMIDT has worked extensive ly with director Robert Ze meckis, winning an Aca demy Award for "Who Framed Roge r Rabbit" and editing "Death Becomes Her" and the "Back to the Future" trilogy, He was also Oscar-nominated for hi s debut film "Coal Miner's Daughter" and hi s other films include "Last of the Mohicans," "The Rocketeer:' "Beaches," "Ruthless People," "Fandango," and "First Bo rn ,"

Sc hmidt was an English literature maj or at the University of Santa Clara, and began his career as an assistant editor. He won an Emmy and an Ame ri can Cin ema Ed itors award for "The Jericho Mile," his only te levision credit. Hi s father was a staff editor at Paramount for 19 yea rs and worked on such films as "Some Like It Hot" and "Sunset Boulevard,"

Ed itor JIM MILLER began a collabora- tion with renowned editor Dede Allen as associate editor on "The Breakfast Cl ub," and co ntinued work ing with her as co-ed itor on "The Milagro Bea nfield War," "Let It Ride" and "The Addams Family," He also worked with director Barry So nnenfeld on "For Love or Money,"

A Chicago native, Miller began hi s fi lm caree r in the Windy City, He became an editor and then a producer of television commercials and industrial and theatrical films, moving to Los Angeles in 1980, His television cred its include Irwin Allen's '~lice in Wonderland" and "Two Fat hers:' Visual effects superviso r ALAN MUNRO served in the sa me ca pacity on "The Ad dams Family," Hi s other films include "N ight ma re on El m Street 5," "Beetlejuice" and "The Wrai th, " He also produ ce d the fi lm "Oddball Hall ," Munro was effects co nsultant and creature des igner on "Clifford," " Predator," "Leviathan," "Are na," "H emoglobi n," and "Little Monste rs,"

Bo rn in Oakland and rai se d there and in Orinda, Californi a, Munro attended Art Ce nter College of Design and began hi s ca reer doing storyboard s for low­ budget films, He was production illustrator on such films as "Mise ry," "Glory" and "Edward Scisso rhand s," He th en beca me art director of th e visual effects de pa rtment at Ca nn on Films, where he worked on such films as "Inva ders from Mars," " Run away Train," "It Ate Cleve la nd," and "Ameri ca 3000,"

Although choreograp her PETER ANASTOS works primarily in th e world of ballet, he is t he man behind th e show-stopping "Mamu shka" extravaganza in "Th e Adda ms Fa mily," For "Ad dam s Fa mily Valu es," he has created a pass ionate and memorabl e tango for Gom ez and Morticia,

Anastos has directed a produ ction of Ve rd i's opera "Ma cbeth " at th e Ken nedy Ce nter in Was hington, D,C.. and choreograph ed Edwa rd Go rey's "The Gilded Bat." for whi ch Go rey did se ts and costu mes ,

The recipient of two Guggenh ei m Fellowships in 198 1 and 1991, Anastos also fo unded the Ba llet Troca dero in 1974 an d ap peared with them until 1979, He has worke d ex tensive ly with Mikhail Baryshnikov, contri buting choreogra phy to the CBS special " Barys hn ikov in Hollywood," Anas tos also wrote the tex t and directed the performance of "Th e Swa n Prin ce," whi ch was illustrated by photog ra pher Arthur Elgort and published in 1989 as a Bantam hardback book,

Co mpose r MARC SHAIMAN, who sco red the first "Adda ms" film , has also sco red the films "H ea rt and So ul s," "Sleepl ess in Seattle," "A Few Good Men," "M r. Saturday Night." "M ise ry, " "S ister Act ," an d "City Slicke rs," Hi s upco ming films in clude "Sister Act 11. " "North, "C ity Slickers II," and "That's Entertainment 111. " In addit ion , Shaim an has work ed as mu sic superviso r and arranger on "Life With Mikey," "When Harry Met Sally," "Beaches ," "Divin e Madness," "Th e Cotton Club," "B ig Business," and "For th e Boys," Sha iman bega n his career as mu sica l di rector and arranger for Bette Midl er's stage shows. In ad dition, he ha s co-produced and arranged albums for Midl er as well as Harry Co nni ckjr., resulting in numerous Platinum records and Grammy nom in ations. Shaiman has also served as mu sical director/arranger for 's live shows, num erous HBO specials and Crystal' s Aca demy Awards medleys, for which Shaiman received an Emmy awa rd.

As an actor, Shaiman ha s appeared on Broadway in "Harlem Nocturne" and in the film s "B roadcast News," "Hot Shots!," "Scenes From A Mall, " "The Adda ms Family," "Mr. Saturday Night," "Heart and Soul s," and "Nort h." ------~ot£s ------® AParamount Communications Company

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