In 1991, Barry Sonnenfeld directed the original movie The Addams Family, about the cartoonist Charles Addams’s famously morbid clan.
The film is a perfect cup of dry cider with just the barest undertone of sweetness.
That’s why Addams Family Values, a sequel that turns 25 years old this week, remains the pinnacle of the subgenre-even if none of the characters ever sits down for a turkey dinner. The Thanksgiving story is, after all, quite a bit more complicated than its surface message of harmony between Pilgrims and Native Americans might suggest. The second component is a firm refutation of the holiday’s core mythos. The first is a celebration of family, whether actual kin or a makeshift community. The ideal Thanksgiving movie has at least two ingredients.
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