The Addams Family (1991)
Raul Julia: Gomez Addams
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Quotes
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Gomez : [about Morticia] I would die for her. I would kill for her. Either way, what bliss.
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Gomez : Look at her. I would die for her. I would kill for her. Either way, what bliss.
Gomez : [Morticia wakes up] Unhappy, darling?
Morticia : Oh, yes. Yes completely.
[Gomez sits]
Morticia : Gomez... Sun. Il me perce comme un poignard.
Gomez : Oh, Tish. That's French.
Morticia : Oui.
Gomez : Cara mia.
[kisses Morticia's hand]
Gomez : En garde, Monsieur Soleil!
Morticia : Gomez...
Gomez : Querida?
Morticia : Last night, you were unhinged. You were like some desperate howling demon. You frightened me.
[pause]
Morticia : Do it again.
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Gomez : We danced the Mamushka while Nero fiddled, we danced the Mamushka at Waterloo. We danced the Mamushka for Jack the Ripper, and now, Fester Addams, this Mamushka is for you.
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Judge : [at the auction] This magnificent piece is encrusted with rubies and 15 emerald chips. It was donated by Morticia and Gomez... Addams. Remember, this year, over half our proceeds will benefit the elderly and the mentally disabled.
[Gomez and Morticia look fondly at Grandmama]
Judge : I'll open the bidding at $5000
Gomez : Five, hah! Not good enough. $25,000!
Margaret : [frantic] What are they *doing*?
Judge : I have twenty.
Gomez : Twenty-five!
[to Morticia]
Gomez : Cara mia?
Judge : Twenty-five.
Morticia : Thirty.
[to Gomez]
Morticia : Mon sauvage.
Gomez : [voice cracks] Thirty-five!
[to Morticia]
Gomez : Eres divina.
Morticia : Mm, fifty!
Judge : I have $50,000.
Morticia : [to Gomez] Your turn, my ecstasy.
Judge : Fifty thousand going once, fifty thousand going twice. Sold to Morticia Addams for fifty... thousand... dollars.
[looks disgusted as Gomez and Morticia do something obscene off-camera]
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Sally Jessy Raphael : So, you claim that your son was brainwashed by voodoo witch doctors and forced to recruit others? Let's take a call.
Gomez : Hello, Sally?
Sally Jessy Raphael : Mr. Addams, *please* stop calling! We do not know where they meet!
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[performing abridged "Hamlet" in school play; sword fighting]
Wednesday : How all occasions do inform against me and spur my dull revenge. O, from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody or nothing worth. If I must strike you dead, I will.
Pugsley : [slashes Wednesday's left wrist; blood sprays out] A hit! A very palpable hit!
[Wednesday cuts of Pugsley's arm, Pugsley slashes her throat; there is lots of blood spraying everywhere, getting the front rows]
Wednesday : O, Proud Death. What feast is toward in thine eternal cell?
[drops both swords and falls to her knees]
Wednesday : Sweet Oblivion, open your arms!
[choking and gasping for breath, collapses, and dies]
Wednesday : [the audience sits aghast in stunned silence, covered with blood while the Addams give a standing ovation]
Gomez : Bravo!
Morticia : Bravo!
Gomez : Bravo! Bravo!
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Gomez : [watching home movies] Remember that fateful night?
Uncle Fester : Of course... Your first cigar!
Gomez : What? Come on, Old Man, I've smoked since I was five. Mother insisted.
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Gomez : [to his family] They say a man who represents himself has a fool for a client. Well, with God as my witness, I am that fool!
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Gomez : Think of it, Thing. For 25 years we've attempted to contact Fester in the great beyond, and for 25 years, nothing. I'm beginning to think my brother truly is lost.
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Dr. Pinderschloss : Love/hate, hate/love. Like for Mama, no?
Gomez : But I didn't hate my mother. It was an accident!
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Gomez : [as they search for Wednesday] Fan out. Pugsley, head for the dung heap. Mama and Morticia, the shallow graves. I'll take the abyss. Lurch, check out the bottomless pit. Fester?
Uncle Fester : [from a window] Up here!
Gomez : [shouting up to him] Fester, you take the ravine, and the unmarked, abandoned well!
Uncle Fester : Somebody should stay behind in case she comes back.
Gomez : Good man. Good thinking!
Grandmama : Then who'll take the swamp?
Gomez : [Thing taps Gomez's shoe] That's the spirit, Thing. Lend a hand. Let's go!
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Gomez : [to Fester] Two, ten, eleven. Eyes, fingers, toes!
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Gomez : [after landing on a dock] Smell that air, Fester! Like a tomb.
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Uncle Fester : What is this?
Morticia : Mama's spécialité de la maison.
Gomez : Oh, Tish.
Grandmama : [to Fester] Start with the eyes.
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Gomez : [to Fester] Aha! Showtime!
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Gomez : [Playing with the train set, ranting about Fester's finger-trap] "How do you take it off?" That's absurd! That finger-trap was a party favor at his 10th birthday!
Morticia : [In the room below, Morticia is reading a bedtime story to Wednesday and Pugsley. She looks up at the noise] Oh, no.
Pugsley : Father's playing with his trains.
Gomez : He wore that finger-trap for two years! Mother had to teach him to eat with his feet! And the combination! AND the password! And my cigar! And he slept so well!
[Thing bangs his fist as Gomez speeds up the trains]
Pugsley : He's using the diesel!
Wednesday : [Looking horrified, as the train approaches a bridge] The covered bridge!
Morticia : [Horrified, as the train runs through a ravine] Dead Man's Curve!
[Grandmama looks up exasperatedly then continues read Gray's Anatomy. Lurch looks up as he darns his socks. A man on the train looks up as Gomez laughs maniacally]
Wednesday : It's all about Uncle Fester, isn't it?
Morticia : [Looks up as Fester passes through a pipe. Her eyes narrow]
[as the trains approach each other]
Gomez : Spirits above me... Give me a sign! Shall I be joyous? Or shall I be damned?
[Trains collide and explode in front of Gomez's face]
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Gomez : [he has thrown a sword and pierced the wall not two inches from Tully's head] Ah, missed!
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Gomez : [to Morticia] You bewitched me. I proposed that very night.
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Gomez : [to Fester] Good show, old man.
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Dr. Pinderschloss : But then you are feeling the little black monster.
Gomez : Pugsley?
Dr. Pinderschloss : Guilt.
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[Thing is gesturing wildly]
Gomez : Mor... Morticia... Morticia? Morticia what? Slow down! It's terrible when you stutter!
[Thing gropes around, finds a pen, and starts to write, but it's out of ink. Groping around again, Thing overturns a bowl of cereal, grabs the spoon, and starts tapping in Morse Code]
Gomez : Morticia... in... danger... stop. Send... help... at once... STOP!
[Gomez stands and runs out. Thing collapses]
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Dr. Pinderschloss : Keep the book closed, Gordon. Listen to Mother!
Uncle Fester : I'll never listen to you, never, ever again!
Dr. Pinderschloss : I had to be strict with you because I cared! Put it down!
Uncle Fester : You never really loved me!
Gomez : Fester, this way!
Dr. Pinderschloss : Stop whining, you little good-for-nothing! Be a man!
Uncle Fester : You were a terrible mother! There! I said it!
[Fester opens the book, and a hurricane is unleashed inside the house, causing Tully and Dr. Pinderschloss to launch out the window]
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Gomez : [sees Flora and Fauna] I'm blinded by such beauty.
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Gomez : Displacement... how bizarre. And here I thought Fester was the problem. He's sullen.
Morticia : He's furtive.
Gomez : Backstabbing.
Morticia : He sulks.
Gomez : I suspect him.
Morticia : You're unbalanced.
Gomez : And I hate him... by God, you're right!
[beaming]
Gomez : He IS Fester!
Morticia : Thank you, Dr. Pinder-Schloss.
Dr. Pinderschloss : I do vat I can.
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Gomez : [to Therapist] I didn't hate my mother. It was an accident!
