Movie Crush Monday: Little C and The Addams Family

Dear readers, another Halloween has come and gone. I'm sitting in my living room in my Goosebumps t-shirt pouting and eating left over candy in a blatant refusal to acknowledge the end of another season. The holiday has a special place in my heart, because for a few short week leading up to it everyone seems more accepting of the weird and macabre. So in an attempt to prolong that feeling, I've taken Dan Hedaya from Benny & Joon and followed him through to the gothic-comedy classic, The Addams Family.

It's the story of a creepy, wonderfully morbid family and the group of con artists who foolishly try to steal from them. It's one of the only times it was okay to take an old TV show and make it into a movie. There is not a single part of the family dynamic at play here that I don't love, from the fact that Wednesday is trying to kill her little brother, to the polar bear rug that attacks the house guests, to the fact that they keep a human hand as a pet...

The character of Wednesday Addams has to be one of my favorite things from the early 90s. She smart and strong, and completely unwilling to compromise any part of her identity. Her parents are fully aware of all her activities and support her fully in her obsession with the Bermuda triangle, or her ancestor who was burned as a witch. She doesn't fit in with any of her peers and she doesn't give a rat's ass. Most teenage or preteen girls at the time were written as obsessed with making friends or being popular, but never Wednesday. She's eight years old in this movie and I still want to be her when I grow up. 

And then you have Gomez and Morticia, who have the most delightfully screwed up relationship ever, and yet they also have probably the most stable and loving marriage depicted in film and TV. The weird thing about this movie is that even as it highlights how dark and dysfunctional the Addams family is, it also shows you how much they are better than the so called "normal people" around them. They may have a few homicidal impulses, but they're never judgmental and they always support each other. In many ways they embodied some of the best qualities of a big family. 

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For pure 90s nostalgia there's not a better movie than this, and for celebrating my personal extension of the Halloween season it was everything I could have asked for. 

Happy watching,

Little C