The Addams Family Page #17

THE ADDAMS FAMILY - 12/3/90 87.

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GRANNY:

Then who'll take the swamp?

Thing tugs at the cuff of Gomez's pants. Gomez nods.

GOMEZ:

That's the spirit, Thing - lend ahand! Let's go!

They all sweep off, with Gomez in the lead.

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INT. WEDNESDAY'S ROOM - A SHORT WHILE LATER 116

Fester is still at the window. Abigail joins him.

THEIR POV:

Spread far and wide over the grounds, the various members

of the family search for Wednesday, tiny lights aloft,

calling.

ABIGAIL:

Where the hell is Tully?

They head out.

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118 INT. DEN - A LITTLE LATER 118

Fester and Virginia find...

TULLY sitting

in an armchair, basking in the rays of sunshinethat beam from a copy of "The Sun Also Rises." Tullysmiles at them.

ABIGAIL:

What are you doing?

TULLY:

Relaxing. Taking a little sun.

ABIGAIL:

Have you gone mad?

TULLY:

Au contraire.

Tully closes the book and smugly unfurls a LEGAL DOCUMENT.

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THE ADDAMS FAMILY - 2/19/91 88.

119 EXT. SWAMP - MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT 119

Thing hops lily pads, stopping occasionally to quest theair for his mistress.

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EXT. PRIMEVAL FOREST ADJACENT TO CEMETERY - MIDDLE OF 120

THE NIGHT:

Torch aloft, Pugsley searches through the primeval forest.

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121 EXT. NEIGHBORHOOD - MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT 121

Lurch picks up a car -- looking for Wednesday.

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122 EXT. UNDERGROUND GROTTO - MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT 122

Morticia and Granny stand in the middle of the dripping

dankness. Stalagmites. Stalactites.

Granny's torch casts scary shadows on the cave walls.

GRANNY:

(calling out)

Wednesday! Wednesday!

MORTICIA:

Oh, Mama, I was sure we'd find her

here.

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123 EXT. CEMETERY - DARK 123

Gomez reaches a stately mausoleum at the far end of the

cemetery. Two proud marble vultures guard the entryway.

Gomez lowers the uplifted claw of one of the vultures andthe stone doors slide open. He steps into A124

INT. MAUSOLEUM - SAME TIME A124

Inside it is catacomb-like, filled with the bleached

bones of the Addams dead. Gomez's torch casts shadows

-- one of which belongs to Wednesday, curled asleep on astone sarcophagus. Relieved to find her, Gomez

approaches quietly. He doesn't want to wake her up. He

lifts her tenderly in his arms.

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THE ADDAMS FAMILY - 2/15/91 89.

124 EXT. GATE - DARKNESS BEFORE DAWN 124

Gate can't open. He rattles miserably on his hinges -locked

tight with heavy chains and yellow police tape large

"NO TRESPASSING!! COURT ORDER!! ADDAMS FAMILY KEEP

OUT!!" signs are posted on Gate's rusty bars.

PULL BACK TO REVEAL -

the family, appalled at the sight of Gate. Lurch carries

the sleeping Wednesday and Pugsley.

GOMEZ:

What's all this?

TULLY -

hurries down the walkway, waving his legal document.

TULLY:

This is a restraining order, Gomez.

GOMEZ:

A restraining order?

TULLY:

It requires you to keep a distance ofone thousand yards from this house.

You've got about nine hundred andninety-nine yards to go - catch mydrift?

GOMEZ:

(in disbelief)

I am restrained - from my own house!?

TULLY:

Not your house, moustache! Not anymore! It belongs to the eldest livingdescendant, the older of the brothers

-- Fester Addams!

GOMEZ:

But - this is lunacy!

MORTICIA:

Fester adores Gomez!

TULLY:

He's afraid of him. Seeing thetwins brought it all back.

(to Gomez)

You're bitter rivals, Gomez - alwayswere, always will be!

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THE ADDAMS FAMILY - 2/15/91 89A.

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GOMEZ:

It's not so! Those girls meant nothing

-he knows that! I demand to see

Fester!

TULLY:

Sorry - no can do. He's very hurt it's

not a good time. Leave it alone.

Or better yet - just leave.

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THE ADDAMS FAMILY - 2/22/91 90.

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Wednesday comes forward, rubbing the sleep from her eyes.

WEDNESDAY:

But he isn't even Uncle Fester.

Gomez and Morticia turn to look at her.

GOMEZ:

(to his family)

Do not fear - justic shallprevail. The courts will decide!

(fervently)

They say a man who representshimself has a fool for a client.

Well, with God as my witness I

am that fool!

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A126 OMITTED A126

126 INT. COURTROOM - DAY 126

C.U. GAVEL -hammers

on the Judge's bench.

PULL BACK to reveal -JUDGE

WOMACK:

is the presiding judge.

reads his decision.

He hammers the bench again, then

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THE ADDAMS FAMILY - 2/26/91 91.

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JUDGE WOMACK:

Given applicable standards of

proof, the attempts to impugn this

man's character or question his

identity have been woefully

inadequate. It is with no small

amount of personal satisfaction

that I declare Fester Addams legal

executor of the Addams estate and

rightful owner of all properties

and possessions contained herein.

Gomez Addams...

(He holds up a golf ball)

I believe this is yours.

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127 EXT. ADDAMS MANSION - DAY 127

The family members TROOP to the car with their fewpossessions.

GOMEZ:

already sits in the passenger seat of the Duesenberg, hiscoat draped over his shoulders as if he were an invalid,

his head thrown back.

Morticia carries out Cleo, her carnivorous plant. Grannycarries her favorite cauldron, Wednesday one of her MarieAntoinette dolls, Pugsley his chemistry set. Lurch uprootshis favorite tree and joins the procession. Thing follows,

dragging a toy wagon packed with his rings, his glove.

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128 OMITTED 128

129 EXT. ADDAMS OVERGROWN DRIVEWAY - LATER 129

The Duesenberg eases out of the driveway and onto thestreet, WEIGHED DOWN by Lurch's tree, sticking out ofthe trunk.

FESTER:

standing at a second story window, watches the car driveoff.

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THE ADDAMS FAMILY - 11/28/90 92.

130 EXT. WAMPUM COURT - LATER. 130

A two-story NEON ARROW points the way to this bungalowcourt -- Bright and awful ersatz western. LOG CABINS OF

SIMULATED WOOD surround the TEEPEE-SHAPED OFFICE.

The Addams' Duesenberg is parked in front of the furthestcabin. The asphalt has been ripped up in big chunks andLurch's tree is parked next to the Addams' new home.

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131 INT. BUNGALOW - SAME TIME 131

C.U. DRESSING TABLE MIRROR

Morticia leans into frame. With an icepick and a hammer,

she deftly makes a large spidery CRACK in the round mirror.

Sighing deeply, she stands back to admire her handiwork.

Granny joins her.

GRANNY:

I like it.

Her mother pats her consolingly.

MORTICIA:

Just as long as we're together,

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