The Addams Family Page #14

an evening!

MORTICIA:

Fester fit right in.

GOMEZ:

The displacement is over!

(CONTINUED)

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ABIGAIL:

(glaring at Fester)

Vell, isn't zat... nice.

WEDNESDAY:

Does he really have to go.

ABIGAIL:

Jais, he does.

GOMEZ:

Well, if he insists upon leaving, weshall mark the occasion. Tish?

MORTICIA:

(to Fester)

We've planned a farewell party.

GOMEZ:

We've invited the whole clan.

Amazed by the gesture, Fester looks over at Gomez andMorticia.

ABIGAIL:

Vat a luffly gesture.

MORTICIA:

(gazing at her family)

Bloodshed... anguish... breakfast...

We're a family again. And we owe

it all to you, Dr. Pinder-Schloss.

ABIGAIL:

Please - Greta.

Greta.

MORTICIA:

ABIGAIL:

Fester - valk me out.

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96 EXT. FRONT WALK - A LITTLE LATER. 96

Fester is escorting Abigail through the yard.

FESTER:

I'm fine, Mother. I'm completelyin control.

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ABIGAIL:

(grabbing him)

They're not your family, Gordon.

I am. They don't love you. I do.

They're evil and corrupt anddegraded. I can give you that.

FESTER:

I'm fine. Really.

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ABIGAIL:

We'll see.

They reach Gate.

ABIGAIL:

(bellowing)

Open up.

Even Gate is intimidated and swings open.

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97 INT. MORTICIA'S CONSERVATORY - EVENING. 97

Fester is cutting the blooms off Morticia's roses.

MORTICIA:

We're opening the ballroom now.

Fester hesitates, then follows Morticia.

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98 INT. HALLWAY OUTSIDE BALLROOM - A SHORT TIME LATER 98

Each carrying a lighted candelabra, Morticia, Gomez,

Fester, Granny, Lurch, Pugsley, and Wednesday stand infront of the tall, elaborately carved, oaken doubledoors. Gomez unlatches them. Together they push themopen and STEP into the

BALLROOM:

Moonlight streams in through the floor-to-ceiling windows,

revealing the true enormity of the ballroom.

It's straight out of a ROCOCO palace. A lofty unsupporteddome ceiling is DECORATED with figures worthy of Dante.

The black marble floor glistens. The furniture and banquettables are FUNEREALLY SHROUDED. Like some primeval sea,

the shrouds undulate in the breeze admitted through theopen doors.

Gomez steps up to Morticia and embraces her. They beginto dance.

Fester remains frozen in the center of the ballroom,

overwhelmed by the grandeur.

FESTER:

A party... for me... here...

As Gomez and Morticia waltz past...

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MORTICIA:

All for you!

GOMEZ:

Tish - how long has it been since

we've waltzed?

MORTICIA:

(ruefully)

Oh, Gomez... hours.

He dips Morticia. As she bends back, she reaches for one of

the shrouds and WHIPS IT OFF -- IT FILLS THE SCREEN. BLACK.

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99 INT. THE BALLROOM. 99

When the shroud comes down THE PARTY IS IN FULL SWING.

Gomez and Morticia, resplendent now in their partyclothes, Morticia in a formal version of her black

sheath, and Gomez in black velvet lounging pajamas,

smoking jacket and fez.

A SMALL ORCHESTRA plays a FRACTURED WALTZ. Thing is athird hand on the bass.

Gomez and Morticia dance among the ADDAMS FAMILY RELATIVES

-- that portrait gallery of GROTESQUES come tolife. Among them are:

DEXTER AND DONALD ADDAMS, the two-headed cousin in

matching turtlenecks.

COUSIN OPHELIA ADDAMS who looks like a Tennessee Williams

heroine who's just been fished out of the Mississippi.

SLOSH ADDAMS. If a man could look like a toad and

still be a man, this is he. He's made many a killingon Wall Street. With him is his child-sized wife, LOIS.

DIGIT ADDAMS, all four arms embrace his date, an over-ageHeidi, with thick blonde braids.

COUSIN LUMPY ADDAMS, a teenage hunchback in a loudblazer.

Dexter and Donald dance Ophelia over to Gomez andMorticia.

DEXTER AND DONALD

(they echo one

another)

I wonder-- I wonder-- what

happened-- what happened-- to

Fester-- to Fester.

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GOMEZ:

Still primping, I suppose.

Her mind water-logged and bleary, Ophelia addressesMorticia, with a spacy Thorazine smile.

OPHELIA:

Where is Fester?

MORTICIA:

Soon, Ophelia. Soon.

Where am I?

OPHELIA:

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A100 INT. FESTER'S BEDROOM A100

Fester is in his robe, or his underwear; he is considering

various pieces of clothing, on hangers or placedon the bed. Abigail stands nearby, her arms folded.

FESTER:

What would look best? A tuxedo?

ABIGAIL:

A nice dark suit is perfectlyacceptable.

FESTER:

But the whole family's coming!

I want to look terrific!

ABIGAIL:

Gordon, may I remind you - you'renot really an Addams.

FESTER:

I know, I know - but the party'sfor me!

(he holds an outfitup in front of themirror)

I love this.

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The front door opens, and Lurch appears; he has obviouslybeen summoned. He looks out; his face lights up as hesees a new arrival.

ANGLE on COUSIN IT, driving up in his bubble-topped It-

mobile. He parks the car and flips open the top. Cousin

It is a hairball in a homburg, who gleeps and squeaks ina language the Addams have no trouble understanding. He

pauses for a moment, to survey the house.

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101 INT. BALLROOM - A LITTLE LATER 101

Lurch escorts COUSIN IT into the ballroom. Gomez and

Morticia come over to greet him.

GOMEZ:

It, old man!

COUSIN IT:

Bleep gibber, ooot, ooot.

MORTICIA:

You're right. Far too long.

Cousin It looks around, obviously checking out the women.

He SEES-

MARGARET:

on the dance floor with Tully.

It runs a hand through his hair, slicking it back, thenexcuses himself.

COUSIN IT:

Ooot gibber bleep.

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MARGARET:

clings stiffly to Tully in the midst of all this Addams'

weirdness.

MARGARET:

The first time we've been dancingin ages, and you take me here...

TULLY:

It's a formal occasion...

MARGARET:

Don't let me out of your sight...

TULLY:

Don't threaten me...

There's a TAP on Margaret's shoulder. She turns. Before

her is Cousin It, hat in hand, eager to cut in.

COUSIN IT:

Oot, ooot, ooot.

He takes her in his arms and spins away with her.

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A102 OMITTED A102

B102 INT. FESTER'S BATHROOM - SAME TIME B102

The pipes groan loudly as scalding water floods the sink.

Abigail shaves the back of Fester's head with a straight

razor. The room is filled with steam.

ABIGAIL:

You'll make your appearance, then slipaway from the party ...

FESTER:

How? I'm the guest of honor.

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C102

INT. BALLROOM - SAME TIME C102

Wednesday is dancing with Lumpy Addams, the teenagehunchback. Morticia approaches them.

MORTICIA:

Wednesday?

WEDNESDAY:

Yes, Mother?

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MORTICIA:

Could you run upstairs and checkon your uncle?

(as Wednesday runs off)

Thank you, dear.

(to Lumpy)

Why, Lumpy Addams. Look at you.

All grown up.

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