The Addams Family (1991)

Anjelica Huston: Morticia Addams

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• Morticia : And our credo: "Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc." "We gladly feast on those who would subdue us." Not just pretty words.

• Gomez : How long has it been since we've waltzed?

  Morticia : Oh, Gomez... hours.

• Morticia : Don't torture yourself, Gomez. That's my job.

• Morticia : Have you spoken to her parents?

  Susan Firkins, Wednesday's Teacher : Well, Wednesday brought in this picture: Calpurnia Addams.

  Morticia : Wednesday's great-aunt Calpurnia. She was burned as a witch in 1706. They said she danced naked in the town square and enslaved the minister.

  Susan Firkins, Wednesday's Teacher : Really?

  Morticia : Oh, yes. But don't worry. We've told Wednesday college first.

• Morticia : Children, what are you doing?

  Wednesday : I'm going to electrocute him.

  Morticia : But we're late for the charity auction.

  Wednesday : But, Mother...

  Morticia : I said no.

  Pugsley : Pleeaaaase?

  Morticia : Oh, all right.

• Wednesday : May I have the salt?

  Morticia : What do we say?

  Wednesday : [sternly]  Now.

• Gomez : To live without you, only that would be torture.

  Morticia : A day alone, only that would be death.

• [Looking for something in a wardrobe] 

  Morticia : "Uncle Niknak's winter wardrobe." "Uncle Niknak's summer wardrobe." "Uncle Niknak."

• Morticia : When we first met years ago, it was an evening much like this. Magic in the air. A boy.

  Gomez : A girl.

  Morticia : An open grave. It was my first funeral.

  Gomez : You were so beautiful. Pale and mysterious. No one even looked at the corpse.

• 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.

• 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] 

• Morticia : Margaret?

  Margaret : Hmm?

  Morticia : About the séance tonight, I wish you'd come. It's Gomez I'm terribly worried about. He won't eat, he can't sleep, he keeps coughing up blood.

  Margaret : He coughs up blood?

  Morticia : Well, not like he used to...

• [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!

• [examining a rare, valuable heirloom Morticia is about to donate to charity] 

  Grandmama : Let's keep it!

  Morticia : Hush, Mama! It's for charity! Widows and orphans. We need more of them.

• Gomez : [as he helps Morticia out of a trap]  Leather straps, red-hot pokers!

  Morticia : Later, my dearest.

• Margaret : You are too precious for words, why, I could just... eat you alive!

  Morticia : Oh no, Margaret! Too young!

• Morticia : [to Thing]  Thing, you're a handful.

• Morticia : [to Tully, as he is torturing her]  You've done this before.

• Gomez : Is it painful?

  Morticia : Extremely.

• [to Gomez, watching Pugsley sleep] 

  Morticia : It's so sweet. He looks just like a little entrée.

• Gomez : Cara mia, is it true?

  Morticia : Oui, mon amour.

• Uncle Fester : What is this?

  Morticia : Mama's spécialité de la maison.

  Gomez : Oh, Tish.

  Grandmama : [to Fester]  Start with the eyes.

• 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] 

• Morticia : Gomez, why don't we go for a drive? The whole family.

  Gomez : A drive? And miss Gilligan?

• Morticia : Why don't you speak to Fester, darling? He's right outside the door.

  Gomez : I would speak with Fester if that *were* Fester. But that is *not*! That is an *impostor*! An IMPOSTORE!

• Morticia : [to Wednesday and Pugsley at the séance]  Children, we're starting. Put down that antenna.

• Gomez : Cara mia.

  Morticia : Mon sauvage.

• Gomez : Cara mia.

  Morticia : Mon cher.

• Morticia : [to Flora and Fauna]  Flora, Fauna, how can I compete? You're twice the woman I am.

• Morticia : [to Thing]  There it is. Just what we've been searching for. Thank you, Thing.

• Morticia : [to Pugsley and Wednesday]  Dead Man's Curve.

• 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.

• Grandmama : Aah! Aaaaaaah!

  Morticia : Mama?

  Grandmama : [lifting something from her cooking pot]  Who put this in here?

  Grandmama : [Pugsley and Fester laugh]  That's for company.

  Gomez : Little rascals.